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A more equal gender distribution doesn't mean that women are treated better. Take Hollywood, for example.

>>brucep+(OP)
Does Hollywood have a more equal gender distribution? I heard the average movie has about 6 male roles for every female roles, including extras.

>>mcv+6r
Watch the credits roll some time. Actors are a tiny part of making a movie.

>>mcv+6r
Depend on what movies you include when counting. Many studies prefer to only look at the top 10 or 100 highest gross earning movies and those only cover a tiny portion of the female audience. Selection bias.

Looking at the gender distribution of the movies that a sample of 10000 women and 10000 men has seen, you get very different numbers.

>>rainbo+zE
They get all of the screen time, though.

>>belorn+aM
This sounds like you've got data backing this up. Do you have a link?

>>brucep+(OP)
How about gender distribution in positions of power? Yes there are lots of actresses, but how many women directors, producers, or studio executives are there? Not many.

>>mcv+4O
An overall more diverse production provides more pathways into the industry for marginalized people, and some of those pathways will lead to acting.

>>mcv+9O
I recall that last time I went looking I took imbd, located movies with large difference in approval rating of one gender compared to the other, and then looked at the cast. Its not perfect proxy for identifying what the targeted/intended audience is, and there is also top lists of so called "chick flicks" if one permits those.

Every study however that I have seen has only looked at the highest gross films, be that the top 5 or top 100. Of those only a few will specifically target a female audience like the 2008 Sex and the City that only had women in star roles.

Here is the IMBD ratings: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000774/ratings

It should not be hard to find a matching movie with the genders reversed where all the star roles are men, the target audience are male, and the ratings flipped.