Despite making up a quarter of the global population, women over 40 remain startlingly underrepresented on screen. In recent years, the percentage of female characters in this age bracket actually dropped, from 20% in 2015 to just 14% in 2022. This disparity is even more pronounced in major films, where men over 45 are ten times more likely than women of the same age to be cast in leading roles.
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When mature women do appear, they are frequently confined to limited archetypes: Despite making up a quarter of the global