2014/04/01/The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood's Exclusion of Women

• when: 2014/04/01
• author: Walt Hickey
• source: FiveThirtyEight
• topics: gender inequity US film industry women erasure of women mainstream media mass media
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• link: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-dollar-and-cents-case-against-hollywoods-exclusion-of-women/
• title: The Dollar-And-Cents Case Against Hollywood's Exclusion of Women
• summary: "... we found that the data doesn't appear to support the persistent Hollywood belief that films featuring women do worse at the box office. Instead, we found evidence that films that feature meaningful interactions between women may in fact have a better return on investment, overall, than films that don't."