India tops the charts in showing attractive women in its
movies and as much as 35 per cent of these women characters are shown with some
nudity, finds a first-ever U.N. sponsored global study of women characters in
popular films across the world.
The study, commissioned by the Geena Davis Institute on
Gender in Media, with support from U.N. Women and The Rockefeller Foundation,
reveals deep-seated discrimination, pervasive stereotyping, sexualisation of
women and their underrepresentation in powerful roles by the international film
industry.
Indian films, the study finds, have a significantly higher
prevalence of sexualisation of women characters and the movies score low in
depicting women in significant speaking roles. While women represent nearly
half of the world’s population, less than one third of all speaking characters
in films are women and U.K.-U.S. collaborations and Indian films are at the
bottom of the pack.
Both, American/British hybrid films (23.6 per cent) and
Indian films (24.9 per cent) show women characters in less than one-quarter of
all speaking roles. Indian films are third behind German and Australian movies
in showing women in “sexy attire”. About 35 per cent of women characters in
Indian movies are shown with some nudity, the study finds. The prevalence of
women directors, writers and producers in the Indian films is also not at a
very high ranking. India had 9.1 per cent women directors, slightly above the
global average of seven per cent, while its percentage of women writers was
12.1 per cent, significantly lower than the 19.7 per cent global average.
This data examining gender prevalence behind the camera
translated into a gender ratio of 6.2 males to every one female in the film
industry in India.
Source: thehindu.com
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