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 ...

It’s a learning moment for everybody. Sofia Coppola, Cannes award-winning director of “The Beguiled,” didn’t know what the Bechdel Test was. In an interview with GQ, Coppola expresses her confusion ...

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 ...

Steven Spielberg is the most famous filmmaker in the world, so it was only a matter of time before his lengthy filmography was scrutinized by 21st century standards. The Bechdel test was going to find ...

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 ...

For years, we've operated under the assumption that passing a rudimentary test is all a film needs to do to be feminist-friendly. The famed Bechdel Test has sent some of our favorite films into shame ...

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 ...

Twenty-nine years ago, American cartoonist Alison Bechdel immortalized her friend Liz Wallace's very simple and compelling rule for picking films, using her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. In ...

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, ...