Gender bias, social bias, and representation: 70 years of B
Bollywood
Hollywood
gender bias
social bias
Journal
Patterns (New York, N.Y.)
ISSN: 2666-3899
Titre abrégé: Patterns (N Y)
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101767765
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022
Historique:
received:
13
05
2021
revised:
14
10
2021
accepted:
16
11
2021
entrez:
24
2
2022
pubmed:
25
2
2022
medline:
25
2
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
We use a suite of cutting-edge natural language processing methods to quantify and characterize societal and gender biases in popular movie content. Our data set consists of English subtitles of popular movies from Bollywood-the Mumbai film industry-spanning 7 decades (700 movies). In addition, we include movies from Hollywood and movies nominated for the Academy Awards for contrastive purposes. Our findings indicate that while the overall portrayal of women has improved over time in popular movie dialogues from both Bollywood and Hollywood, modern films still exhibit considerable gender bias and are yet to achieve equal representation among genders. We also observe a strong bias favoring fair skin color in Bollywood content that occurred consistently across all time periods we considered. While our geographic representation analysis indicates improved inclusion over time for several Indian states, it also reveals a long-standing under-representation of many northeastern Indian states.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35199062
doi: 10.1016/j.patter.2021.100409
pii: S2666-3899(21)00283-X
pmc: PMC8848024
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
100409Commentaires et corrections
Type : ErratumIn
Type : ErratumIn
Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Authors.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare no competing interests.
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