"It may come as a surprise to many, but several of our beloved films growing up don't even pass the Bechdel-Wallace Test. Sometimes called the 'Mo Movie Measure' or the 'Bechdel Rule,' the Bechdel-Wallace Test looks for three simple elements in a movie: first is that it has to have two women in it. Second, the two women must interact or talk with one another, and finally, third, what they talk about has nothing to do with a man. In other words, the test aims to try out a film's approach toward gender bias. To set expectations for this list, according to a 2018 analysis from the BBC, only 49% of the Best Picture winners from the years 1929 to 2017 have passed the Bechdel Test. Julie Dahlgren of Certai notes that having men speak over women in films more often, 'teaches us indirectly that men are more worth listening to, and the first step to changing this is to become aware of the problem. And this is done by producing the data.'" - themarysue.com
