Index: February 20, 2015

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2 Minimum number of women, who speak to each other about something other than a man, required for a film to pass the Bechdel Test.

25 million Average budget disparity between films that don’t pass the Bechdel test and ones that do.

15 Percentage higher revenue that Bechdel passing movies have made, on average, since 1990.

77 Percentage of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that identify as men.

50 Percentage of Best Picture nominees that pass the Bechdel Test.

0 Number of Best Picture nominees with female protagonists. Also, number of female directors nominated in 2015. But they’re in good company—Stanley Kubrick didn’t win one. Well, not in that category anyway.

Sources: 1) Bechdeltest.com, 2) Huffington Post, 3) fivethirtyeight, 4) Huffington Post, 5) Oscars.com, 6) Oy.

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