First appearing in 1985, cartoonist and writer Alison Bechdel and her friend Liz Wallace devised the Bechdel Test as a straightforward evaluation method used to explore the representation of gender in ...

Captain America: Civil War may be the biggest movie of the year so far, but it doesn’t do much for its female characters. The women in the film barely communicate with each other. During one of the ...

Movie theaters in Sweden have introduced a rating system based on gender bias, but a ton of successful blockbusters would fail this rather facile test. [F]emales ...