It is also likely that audiences, particularly women, want to see movies that have fully fleshed out female characters, and they reward those films at the box office.
Which makes sense, because female-led films should naturally give the female characters more opportunities to talk about something other than men.
To drive this point home, all of the films that have crossed the $1 billion mark at the worldwide box office since 2012 have passed the test.
It was found that films that passed the Bechdel Test outperformed those films that did not.