Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bechdel Test, a gauge for measuring how women characters are represented in films, has become shorthand for evaluating sexism ...

We all talk about the Bechdel Test all the time, because it’s so simple: Does a story have two women who talk to each other, about something other than a man? But almost every time it comes up, we all ...

Summer is the time of year when big male-dominated action blockbusters roam the multiplexes like lumbering dinos in “Jurassic World.” Which means we can expect more harebrained movies based on toys or ...

A new study about the representation of women in Hollywood thoroughly confirms what you have probably long ago come to perceive: most films do not come anywhere close to passing the Bechdel Test. The ...

The announcement that four Swedish movie theaters would be rating films according to the Bechdel Test, which Criticwire first reported on last week, has sparked a flurry of conversation about its ...

On Monday, in a now-deleted Tweet, writer Hanna Rosin criticized Hulu’s popular new film “Fire Island” for its so-called failure of the Bechdel test. Rosin wrote that the movie “gets an F- on the ...

Since cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s introduction of “The Rule,” in her famous comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, the Bechdel Test has served as a subject of debate in film since the 1980’s. Suggesting ...

Blink and you might miss them. The first and only living woman to speak in “The Revenant” appears an hour and a half in. The one scene shared only between women in “Spotlight” comes after the climax, ...

Today, there’s rarely a discussion of women in cinema without some mention of the Bechdel Test. The quick thought experiment highlights gender disparities in film by asking whether movie contains two ...

Another day, another year end list. This time around, I want to draw up a report card (admittedly a bit unscientific) on what the biggest films of 2016 say about women and the ways in which they are ...