The evaluation criteria

Bechdel test- two women (addition: named)- talking to each other (having a discussion - the number of sentences?)
- about something else but men

Mako Mori Test- has a female character a narrative arc that is not about supporting a male's story

Sexy Lamp Test
- can the female character be replaced with a sexy lamp without it removing something essential from the story?
(Or a sexy robot, blow-up doll, mannequin or cardboard cutout)

The Crystal Gems Test

1) A work has at least four major female characters, or if there are fewer than 6 major characters, at least half of them are females
2) passes Bechdel test, Mako Mori test, and Sexy Lamp test
3) Each female character has to pass at least two of these tests.
4) It has to be a clear pass

F-Rating
- features complex female characters who contribute significantly to the story on screen in their own right
- written by a woman
- directed by a woman

Sphinx Test
http://www.sphinxtheatre.co.uk/the-sphinx-test.html
- Does a woman has a primary role?
- Is there a woman driving the action?
- Is the woman active rather than reactive?
- How stereotypical is the character?
- Is the character compelling, complex and multidimensional?
- Is the movie/story essential and does it have an impact on a wide audience?

The Feldman Score

A movie passes with a score of five or higher:

2 points for a female writer or director
1 point for a female composer or director of photography
1 point for three female producers or three female department heads
1 point for a crew that’s 50 percent women
2 points if there’s a female protagonist who determines story outcomes
2 points if no female characters were victimized, stereotyped or sexualized
And 1 point if a sex scene shows foreplay before consummation, or if the female characters initiate or reciprocate sexual advances

Furiosa Test

- Does it make men upset saying things like "feminist propaganda", "misandrist" and "emasculating"?

The Roxane Gay Test

1. A woman's story is being told. She is not relegated to the role of sidekick, romantic interest, or bit player.
2. Her world is populated with intelligent women who also have stories worth telling, even if their stories aren't the focus of the movie.
3. If she must engage in a romantic storyline, she doesn't have to compromise her sanity or common sense for love.
4. At least half the time, this woman needs to be a woman of color and/or a transgender woman and/or a queer woman because all these women exist! Though she is different, her story should not focus solely on this difference because she is a sum of her parts. She is not the token. She has friends who look like her so they need to show up once in a while.
5. She cannot live in an inexplicably perfect apartment in an expensive city with no visible means of affording said inexplicably perfect apartment.
6. She doesn't have to live up to an unrealistic feminist standard. She can and should be human. She just needs to be intelligent and witty and interesting in the way women, the world over, are, if we ever got a chance to really know them on the silver screen.

The Maisy Test for sexism in kids' shows

Gender Balance - Gender Representation:

- Are male and female characters present in roughly equal numbers and status? Are they equal?

Gender Freedom:

Do girls and boys get to do the same things?
Do they all get to have adventures
Do male and female characters subvert traditional gender roles and have the freedom to enjoy a whole range of experiences, unlimited by their gender?

Look extra closely: is there at least one female and one male character who subvert gender stereotypes? Are girls allowed to wear trousers and fix cars? Are boys allowed to enjoy cooking and feel scared?

Gender Safety:

Are body shapes healthy and realistic?
Is everyone safe?
Are boys and girls treated respectfully?
Is the show free from the sexualization of children, objectification, unrealistic body standards and misogyny?

Look extra closely: are girl characters free from mascara and hourglass figures? Are male and female characters given equal respect?

Social Justice and Equality:

Can every kid see someone like them?
does this show support social justice and equality in other ways? Are people of color represented or is the cast all-white? Is there any representation of other marginalized groups: disabled people, LGBTQ+ folks, different class backgrounds?

Does the show support equality and social justice in other ways?
Extra points if children are encouraged by the plots and characters to critique power structures, consumerism, environmental and social exploitation

Questions to ponder about gender balance and representation:

Is the narrator male or female?

how many percents of speaking characters are women?
How many percents of the cast was female?
the ratio of male actors vs female actors

The portion of male and female characters
primary roles
secondary roles
tertiary roles

Screen time for both genders
Words spoken by both genders

The Largest Ever Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender

The Uphold Test
- the on-set crew is 50% women

ON-SET CREW

CINEMATOGRAPHY
SCRIPT SUPERVISOR (SEARCH)
SECOND UNIT DIRECTOR / ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
SOUND DEPARTMENT
CAMERA AND ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT

The Rees Davies Test
- every department has 2+ women

The White Test
- Half of the department heads are women
- Half of the members of each department are women
- Half of the crew members are women

Production department
- executive producer

Script department
- story producer

Location department
- location manager

camerap department
- cinematographer

Sound department
- production sound mixer

Grip department
- Key grip

Electrical department
- Gaffer

Art department
- production designer and/or art director

HAIR AND MAKE-UP DEPARTMENT
- Chief make-up artist, the key makeup artist

Wardrobe department
- costume designer

Film editor

Visual effects
- VFX supervisor

sound designer

The Hagen Test

Half of the one-scene roles go to women
And the first crowd scene features at least 50 percent women

The Koeze-Dottle Test

The supporting cast is 50 percent women

Questions to ponder about Gender Freedom:

The Peirce Test

There’s a female character who is a protagonist or antagonist with her own story
The female lead has dimension and exists authentically with needs and desires that she pursues through dramatic action
And the audience can empathize with or understand the female lead’s desires and actions

The Villarreal Test

A movie fails if:

A lead female character is introduced as one of three common stereotypes in her first scene: as sexualized; as hardened, expressionless or soulless; or as a matriarch (tired, older or overworked)

But a failing movie can redeem itself and pass if the lead female character is later shown to be three or more of the following:

Someone with a career where she is in a position of authority or power
A mother
Someone who’s reckless or makes bad decisions
Someone who is sexual or chooses a sexual identity of her own

The Landau Test

A movie fails if:

A primary female character ends up dead
A primary female character ends up pregnant
Or a primary female character causes a plot problem for a male protagonist
(meaning, the fact that she exists is the reason why the man gets into trouble. The male protagonist has to do something because of the woman, like "I'm not good looking enough for her, I have to do things", "I'm not rich enough for her, I have to build her a house" or whatever like that. Like Clint Eastwood's character in The Beguiled. He's a plot problem.)

The Tauriel Test

“Does the work contain
- a named female character
- who is good at her job and
- whose competence is demonstrated within the work and
- recognized by the work and
- at least one other named character.
The job in question must be an identified role with duties and requirements defined either within the work or by common knowledge.
It is not required to be paid and may be a hereditary role provided it is definable”.

The Willis Test

"A crude but often revealing method of assessing male bias in lyrics is to take a song written by a man about a woman and reverse the sexes."
And in this case, take a movie and reverse the lines. How does it feel if a man says the lines written for women and vice versa?

traditional gender roles

"almost all female characters were stereotypes, often portrayed as romantic, frail and concerned about their appearance."

Do women:
- answer questions
- boss or order others, take action, make decisions, assertive, decisive
- show ingenuity, solve problems
- achieve a goal
- eat

go-get-em types who are physically confident and adventurous

are women depicted as:
- doctors, business leader, lawyer/judge, politician
- having a job

Do women have genderneutral roles
Do women have traditionally male roles
Are there scenes where the male character/s support the female character?
Can the dialogue be inverted so that males say what females say and vice versa?

Is there a woman not romantically connected to a male character or not related to one (wives, mothers, daughters, sisters...)

traditional gender roles

men work, women take care of the house, food, children

men control, dominate and decide, women are submissive and obey
(how many men are in a submissive position, how many women in a leadership position? How many men are doing what they are told, how many women?)

men solve problems, women help

men discipline and protect, women nurture

men are physical and active, women are emotional and passive
men are strong, women weak
men rescue, save, women need to be rescued and saved

Men need respect, women need love. Men give love to get sex, women give sex to get love.
Men want to fight for a woman, women want to be rescued.
Men defend and provide, women comfort and nurture.

"Calculating how often women appear on screen is one way to measure gender bias, but it’s also important  to consider who they are portraying and what their characters are talking about."

boys are interested in gadgets and things, cars and machines, engineering and mechanics and technical stuff, games, and sports and pissing contest and food, games and technology, computers, television, entertainment, sex, outdoor activities girls are interested in dolls and clothes, looks, makeup, boys, children, relationships, romance, animals, nursing, nurturing, caring for things, household chores, baking, communication, talking, gossip, magazines, celebrities, WHAT do the women speak about?
- men
- relationships
- marriage
- housekeeping
- children
- makeup, clothes, appearances, beauty do women wear pants in the movie?

do men have long hair?

female jobs: secretaries, teachers, librarians, assistants, nurses, cosmetologists, hairdressers
male jobs: doctors, politicians, leaders, construction workers, mechanics, engineers, scientists

Women are more stupid, ignorant, uneducated than men

Women don't play sports, they exercise and yoga and do feminine, pretty things like yoga and dance and stretching
Men play group sports, the dirtier, more physical, more violent the better

Women know language, English, literature, arts
Men know math and science

Men do electrics, maintenance, take out the garbage, care for the car, mow the grass
Women clean, cook, wash, sew, do crafts, decorate  

the MacGyver Test

a film or television show passes if it meets any of these criteria about its male characters:
* The absence of the mother is not required for the father to be portrayed as a competent dad.
* An honest, hard-working man is in a successful or leadership position and is not portrayed as a hapless loser.
* The female protagonist shows interest in male protagonist before he is the hero.
* The male protagonist solves problems in creative ways, and only uses violence as a last resort to carry out his goals or mission.

the Raleigh Becket Test

there is a central male character, whose narrative arc
- requires the development of a female character
- he never becomes romantically or sexually involved with this female character.

Added 22/12-18
Kuku test
- the males in the film must not be treated as disposable, or act for women's benefit
- fathers must not be portrayed as stupid, useless or incompetent
- the movie must not relate everything negative to males and positive to females

Questions to ponder about Gender Safety:

sexualisation

"Male gaze" - is she presented as seen through a straight man's eyes? (does the face and torso views show as much of the women as they show of men and in the same positions?)
Is the person presented as someone you ought to find sexually attractive?

traditional, sexualized image of women:

being young and healthy, a virgin
- women shorter than men
- hourglass figure, boobs, small waist and wide hips/ass accentuated
- long legs, smooth, hairless skin (are her smooth, hairless legs and armpits shown?)
- round face with big lips and eyes and tiny nose
- long, wavy, shiny hair, loose
- heels, narrow skirts, other clothing that inhibits movement and forces the woman to be still or move only slowly
- vulnerable fabrics like lace, silks, velvet, thin and shiny. Not heavy-duty man materials
- mouth for smiling, not for speaking (or eating)
- jewelry that is for show, not practical - childish jewelry? Jewelry that says she doesn't do much?

Age of primary and secondary actors?

How sexually revealing clothes did the women wear?Were the women depicted naked, partially naked, almost naked, wearing just underwear? How many?
Were these females children or teenagers?
- would her clothes pass a high school dress code / modest clothing requirements (no cleavage showing, no tight clothes, knees, and elbows covered)

Male sexualization - how much bare chests, six-packs, bulging muscles, nudity

identifying features of sexual objectification

- the person is seen as an object devoid of thought or feeling or experiences or opinions or voice
- lacking in autonomy and self-determination
- lacking in agency
- interchangeable
- lacking in boundary-integrity
- something that is owned
- reduced to a body or body parts
- having no value outside appearance
- the person is being silenced

an object is passive, being acted upon

"once a person has been established as an object of sexual pleasure, he or she becomes a thing and can be treated and used as such by everyone”

Sexual abuse

The main forms of sexual abuse: sexual harassment, sexism, homophobia, sexual assault or rape.

The following are examples of the remarks, behaviors or gestures that constitute sexual abuse.

REMARKS
Allusions to sexual preferences
Blackmail / threats
Comments on appearance/body
Double entendres
Indecent proposals
Intimate references
Obscene language
Sexual innuendoes
Unsolicited advances
Unwanted advances

GESTURES
Caresses
Fonding
Indiscrete glances
Intimate relations
Kissing
Obscene gestures
Pinching
Sexual stimulation

BEHAVIOURS
Denying employee benefits to a person who has not responded to sexual advances.
Dismissing or firing a person who refused sexual advances.
Forcing a person to show off cleavage, to undress.
Forcing a person to wear a “sexy” outfit.
Getting too close physically while working.
Insistently recounting personal sexual experiences.
Raping a person by physical force or by threatening blackmail.
Showing, displaying degrading sexual images or obscene materials.

Questions to ponder about Social Justice and Equality:

The Representation Test

- is the protagonist a woman
-- extra points if she is POC or belongs to another minority
- are there more than one woman, in a speaking role, not a caricature
-- extra points if these characters are POC/LGBT/disabled/other minority
- does the film represent women as objects for the male gaze
- does the speaking roles include diverse body types?
- how old are the women? (extra points for over 40)
- does the film pass Bechdel test?

- men's role
-- violence, sexual violence, harassment
-- men's body image
-- POC/GLBT/disabled/"ugly"/fat
-- non-stereotypical, non-caricature roles?

- does the film include characters who are not defined or limited by their minority status?

Kent test

The woman/femme of color character...
A. Must not solely be a walking stereotype/trope.
B. Must have their own plot / narrative arc.
C. Must not be solely included in the narrative just for purpose of “holding down” some male character and his story.
D. Must not solely be included in the narrative to prop up a White female character.
E. Must not solely exist in the film/piece of media for the purpose of fetishization.
F. Must have at least one interaction with another woman/femme of color.
G. Must not be the go-to character “sacrifice” in a film/piece of media

Aila test
1. The main character is an Indigenous / Aboriginal woman...
2. Who  DOES NOT fall in love with a white man…
3. And DOES NOT end up raped or murdered at any point in the story.

The Waithe Test

-There’s a black woman in the work
-Who’s in a position of power
-And she’s in a healthy relationship

The Ko Test

There’s a non-white, female-identifying person in the film
Who speaks in five or more scenes
And speaks English

The Villalobos Test

The film has a Latina lead
And the lead or another Latina character is shown as professional or college educated, speaks in unaccented English, and is not sexualized

Creating the New Bechdel Test - 12 women in film industry suggests their own test to see if the movie is equal