The folks over at Polygraph have put together a mammoth project: The largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender: 2,000 scripts, 25,000 actors, 4 mn lines. Surprise to none, men nabbed the majority of lines in 88% of the films analysed. “It was hard to find a subset that didn’t over-index male. Even romantic comedies have dialogue that is, on average, 58% male.” In fact, even in movies where women are the lead, men seem to have the majority of lines, “Pretty Woman and 10 Things I Hate About You both have lead women (i.e., characters with the most amount of dialogue). But the overall dialogue for both films is 52% male, due to the number of male supporting characters.” Do better, world Hollywood.