Blink and you might miss them. The first and only living woman to speak in “The Revenant” appears an hour and a half in. The one scene shared only between women in “Spotlight” comes after the climax, ...

Perhaps you have heard about The Bechdel Test? It’s from Alison Bechdel’s 1985 strip Dykes to Watch Out For. In the plate called “The Rule,” a female character asks another if she wants to go to a ...

A debate has been sparked on Twitter over whether it is appropriate to apply the Bechdel test to certain movies—in this case, Hulu's Fire Island. Writer Hanna Rosin has angered a number of movie buffs ...

Things are looking (slightly) up for female representation, according to a Bustle report. Of 20 sampled films, 11 fulfill all three requirements of Alison Bechdel’s litmus test for female ...

A few years ago — roughly 70 years too late — people realised that Hollywood had a problem. Whenever there was a woman character in a movie, and writers had bothered to give her a name, chances are ...

The three-step Bechdel Test has become synonymous with female representation in movies. But at the Bechdel 2.0 panel held Feb. 9 at the Athena Film Festival – which has a mission to celebrate women ...

One of the clever recent innovations at the subscription streaming service Fandor is the ability to filter films using the Bechdel Test. Created by cartoonist Alison Bechdel, the Bechdel Test applies ...