If you ever talk about movies with like-minded friends — and it's safe to assume you do if you're reading this, to be frank — you probably have some passing familiarity with the Bechdel test.

Who talk to each other? About something other than a man? That simple metric, which is known as the Bechdel Test and first surfaced nearly 40 years ago, reveals a lot about Hollywood’s ...

A few days ago, after I contended that a feminist litmus test commonly called the Bechdel Test was utterly useless, feminists politely took exception on social media. The piece was picked up by ...

Bean counters come up with a meaningless way to measure whether movies pass the feminist litmus test. Suppose your favorite film critic started sprinkling his reviews with references to the ...

Inspired by the popular Bechdel-Wallace Test — which measures the representation of women in TV and film — the Climate Reality Check is a simple tool designed to measure climate change on screen.

Alison Bechdel invented the test that measures gender inequality in films more than 30 years ago. As a musical based on one of her most beloved graphic novels hits London, she tells Stylist.co.uk ...

It was inspired by the Bechdel Test, named for cartoonist Alison Bechdel, which measures whether a work of fiction contains at least two named female characters who discuss a subject other than a man.

A new report finds that only one Oscar-nominated film, "The Wild Robot," acknowledges climate change, down from three last ...

It was inspired by the famed Bechdel-Wallace Test for evaluating the depth of female representation in film and TV. Good Energy’s version assesses new scripted movies and TV shows for two key ...

As we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, you might be looking for some inspiring tales. Head to your local ...

The vast majority of Academy Award-nominated movies do not acknowledge climate change or environmental issues, despite those issues being increasingly present in mainstream blockbusters, according to ...