“The success of “Catching Fire” and “Frozen” should put to rest the assumption that audiences don’t want to see female-centric movies, especially female-led action-adventure stories, an assumption that is often trotted out as a defense of gender imbalance on the screen. Earlier this year, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism reported that women were vastly underrepresented in the 100 top-grossing fictional films of 2012. Out of 4,475 speaking characters on screen, only 28.4 percent were female. The recent high-water mark was 2009, when 32.8 percent were female.”

– http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/opinion/heroines-at-the-box-office.html?ref=todayspaper