Female Actors Finally Achieve Parity With Men As Leads In The Top-Grossing Films of 2024

It’s about time. In 2024 the percentage of top-grossing films featuring female protagonists matched the percentage of films with male protagonists for the first time in recent history. According to the latest installment of Dr. Martha Lauzen’s annual It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World report, 42% of the 100 top-grossing films domestically had female protagonists while