Share of girls & women in films in the U.S. 2019, by genre

In 2019, around 38.7 percent of characters in comedy films made in the United States were girls or women. Meanwhile, the share of female characters in action and/or adventure movies in the U.S. stood just below 28 percent that year. Furthermore, between 2018 and 2019, the number of lesbian characters in the highest-grossing movies in the U.S. decreased by 41 percent.