PICTURES – Gender Inequality In Film, Here’s How It Really Looks

Given the massive opening weekend that the Hunger Games had and due to the popularity of Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss, the New York Film Academy decided to take a look at the gender bias in the film industry.

There is no secret that the film industry is largely male dominated, on all fronts, critics, producers, directors, leading ladies, but things are beginning to improve slowly but surely.

Here are some of the main findings.

Here’s how the industry shapes up in general:

Then there’s the amount of women working in the industry:

Here are the inspiring female roles (note the inclusion of Katniss and Merida):

The awards bias:

But there is light at the end of the tunnel! Where is Tina Fey?!

Hat tip to the JOE.ie boys for this one, and the New York Film Academy for some great work.