Less than a third of all speaking roles in films across the globe are given to women - and females are twice as likely as males to be hypersexualised on camera, a UN-backed report has found.
The study found that although women represent half of the world's population, just 30.9 per cent of all speaking characters in films are women, while less than a quarter of the on-screen workforce is made up of women (22.5 per cent).
Commissioned by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, the investigation looked at popular films across 11 countries, including the UK, US and India.
It concluded that "girls are nowhere to be 'scene'" in an industry that is characterised by "deep-seated discrimination" and "pervasive stereotyping of women and girls".
When women are portrayed in positions of employment, they represent less than 15 per cent of business executives, political figures, or science, technology, engineering, and/or maths (STEM) employees.
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