With Women accounting for just under half of the world's population, it's insane to find so few represented in the media and escpecially in Cinema. If you have ever watched a movie and wondered: "where all the women at?! ", that movie probably didn't pass the Bechdel Test.
The Bechdel Test takes its name from its creator, American cartoonist Alison Bechdel
The rules of the Bechdel Test are simple:
1) Does the film feature at least two women?
2) Do they talk to each other at any point during the film?
3) And do they talk about something besides a man?
The Bechdel Test was born in 1985, in this comic strip from To Watch Out For:
Why it matters that women are represented equally in film and media
United Nations Woman's infographics explains it perfectly, here:
As seen, women are consistently underrepresented across virtually all fields. In the realm of news, only 24% of persons heard, read about or seen in the news about, are women. In the Oscars 92 years of existence, only 1 woman (Kathryn Bigelow) was has won the Oscar for best director, compared to 92 men.Regarding the Cannes film festival, in its 72 year history, only 1 woman (Jane Campion) has won the "Palme d'Or" compared to 96 men. Here is to hoping that 2021 will see another woman win the award(s) following the golden globe win of Chloé Zhao's Nomadland. The Bechdel Test provides a basis on which to collect quantifiable proof of gender representation inequality in fiction. The data collected has since been used to push for change and for gender equality. 
