WEEK IN WOMEN: Lauzen’s Stats Show Male Critics 2 to 1 over Females – Brandy McDonnell reports
Female film critics writing for print, online and broadcast media in 2019 continue to be outnumbered by male writers by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, according to the latest annual study from Dr. Martha Lauzen, executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University.
According to her report “Thumbs Down 2019: Film Critics and Gender, and Why It Matters,” women accounted for only 34 percent of all the reviewers out of the 380 individuals whose work is included on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, and only 32 percent of the 4,750 reviews counted in the survey during spring 2019. Continue reading on THE WEEK IN WOMEN.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Martha Lauzen is a member of AWFJ’s Board of Advisors.