If Wonder Woman Can Do It, She Can Too
81 percent of working characters in 21 G-rated films released from September 2006 to September 2009 — that is, characters with jobs — are male.
.. Speaking roles are no better. Women fill less than a third in films across the world
.. Even Disney princesses don’t get to be the main speaking characters in their own films. In “Frozen,” male characters spoke 59 percent of the lines. By one tally, the total speaking time for female characters in “Star Wars” who are not named Princess Leia is 63 seconds. Total.
.. “The more media a girl consumes, the fewer options she thinks she has in life,” I heard Geena Davis say