In assessing the impact of gender imbalance, the study showed that male critics were likely to award worse ratings to films with female protagonists than female critics were (with the disparity less marked with films with male protagonists), and films with a female director were more likely to be reviewed by a female critic.
A new study has found that male film critics outnumber female by two to one, and are less likely to mention female directors in their work.
Moreover, the figures reveal that female critics are more likely to mention a female director by name than a male critic (89% to 81%) and make exclusively positive comments about that director (52% to 38%).
The report also found that men outnumber women in every job category, including critics, freelancers, editors and contributors.