AI tool to quantify power imbalance between female and male characters in movies

The team used machine-learning-based tools to analyze the language in nearly 800 movie scripts, quantifying how much power and agency those scripts give to individual characters. In their study, recently presented in Denmark at the 2017 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, the researchers found subtle but widespread gender bias in the way male and female characters are portrayed.

Gender Gap, Tool, Movie, ResearchBrigitte BellanDecember 1, 2017Movie, University of Washington, power imbalance, gender inbalance