27 Nov

“Historically, men translated the Odyssey. Here’s what happened when a woman took the job.”

“The Odyssey is about a man. It says so right at the beginning — in Robert Fagles’s 1996 translation, for example, the poem opens with the line, “Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns.””

Read: Historically, men translated the Odyssey. Here’s what happened when a woman took the job.

07 Aug

“Film dialogue often reinforces stereotypes about race and gender, a machine learning study confirms”

“In news that should be no surprise to anyone who follows the film industry, a new study has found that men speak more than twice as much as women in film, and often, the dialogue that is given to women helps reinforce gender and racial stereotypes.”

Read: Film dialogue often reinforces stereotypes about race and gender, a machine learning study confirms

07 Aug

“Film dialogue often reinforces stereotypes about race and gender, a machine learning study confirms”

“In news that should be no surprise to anyone who follows the film industry, a new study has found that men speak more than twice as much as women in film, and often, the dialogue that is given to women helps reinforce gender and racial stereotypes.”

Read: Film dialogue often reinforces stereotypes about race and gender, a machine learning study confirms

11 Sep

“Male film actors get jobs like “doctor” and “cop.” Women get “receptionist” and “party girl.””

“If you finish watching a movie and let the ending credits scroll for a while, you’ll come across the actors who are merely identified as descriptors — “bridesmaid #1,” “man in donkey suit,” or “hot dog vendor.”

Read: Male film actors get jobs like “doctor” and “cop.” Women get “receptionist” and “party girl.”

07 Aug

“New facts on film’s ‘epidemic of invisibility’ for women, minorities”

“A new USC study has found that women had less than one-third of the speaking roles in the top-grossing films between 2007 and 2014 — another indication of the extent of Hollywood’s longstanding gender and diversity problems.”

Read: New facts on film’s ‘epidemic of invisibility’ for women, minorities

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