The Bechdel test (/ˈbɛkdəl/ bek-dəl), also known as the
Bechdel-Wallace test,[1] asks whether a work of fiction features at least two
women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement
that the two women must be named is sometimes added.
Only about half of all films meet these requirements,
according to user-edited databases and the media industry press. The test is
used as an indicator for the active presence of women in films and other
fiction, and to call attention to gender inequality in fiction due to
sexism.[2]
The Bechdel test is named for the American cartoonist Alison
Bechdel, in whose comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For it first appeared in 1985.
Bechdel credited the idea to a friend, Liz Wallace, and to the writings of
Virginia Woolf. After the test became more widely discussed in the 2000s, a
number of variants and tests inspired by it have been introduced.
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