![]() In Finding Nemo the only female fish in the entire ocean couldn't remember her name from one moment to the next. According to the institute's website male characters have three-quarters of the speaking parts in kid's entertainment and 83 per cent of film and TV narrators are male. And this statistic hasn't shifted since World War II, when it actually improved to this level because fewer war films were being made. Davis points out that even in so-called family films male characters outnumber female characters by an average of three to one. ![]() While she does not look at books per se, her research into film and TV reveals many reasons why women must battle so much harder to get their contributions taken seriously. Perhaps Geena Davis and her ground-breaking Institute on Gender in Media can provide some of the answers as to why. ![]() Author Joanne Rowling named her books after Harry rather than Hermione despite Hermione almost always winning the day. ![]() Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films. ![]()
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