Strong Supporting Statistics - Geena Davis Institute

• Male characters are twice as likely to speak as female characters in the top grossing films. Overall, male characters spoke 31.8% of the time in films compared to 14.5% of the time for female characters.
• In movies with male leads, male characters speak four times as much as female characters (36.7% compared to 8.8%). When men play the lead in a film, male characters have a strong speaking time advantage.
• In movies with female leads, female characters speak 29.5% of the time compared to 17.7% for male characters. This speaking time advantage for female characters is not as large as the advantage male characters get in films with male leads, and this advantage disappears in films from 2015.
• In films with male and female co-leads, male characters speak significantly more than female characters (27.8% compared to 19.7%). This means that when men and women lead a cast together, male characters still dominate the dialogue.
• On average, the top 100 grossing non-animated films of 2014 earned $72, 228,000 each. Films with female leads made considerably more on average than films with male leads or male and female co-leads. Films with female leads earned $108,909,090 compared to $70,500,000 for films with male leads and $66,161,290 for films with male and female co-leads.