It wasn’t until 1985 when people finally started talking about how Hollywood represented women in film. Usually whenever there was a woman character in a movie, and the writers had actually bothered to give her a name, chances are she rarely spoke to another woman — and if she did, it was probably about a man. Enter the Bechdel Test, a simple tool that measures gender bias in movies by analyzing three things: Are there any named female characters? And if so, Do these female characters talk to each other? And If so, Do these female characters talk about something other than a man?…
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