Women in Hollywood get less screen time than men. This technology could help fix that.

Engineers have created software that parses through every scene, line and frame in a movie to determine exactly how much screen and speech time female characters are given compared to their male counterparts. Their findings: As in many other professions, women get the short shrift. But the technology may do more than provide new evidence of the sexism that Hollywood observers and outspoken actresses have long lamented. It also could help expose the unconscious biases that lead to cinematic gender disparity well before a script is finalized or an editor’s cuts are approved. Read More…