<Li> "20% of all editors ." </Li> <Li> "2% of all cinematographers ." </Li> <Li> "38% of films employed 0 or 1 woman in the roles considered, 23% employed 2 women, 28% employed 3 to 5 women, and 10% employed 6 to 9 women ." </Li> <P> A New York Times article stated that only 15% of the top films in 2013 had women for a lead acting role . The author of the study noted that "The percentage of female speaking roles has not increased much since the 1940s when they hovered around 25 percent to 28 percent ." "Since 1998, women's representation in behind - the - scenes roles other than directing has gone up just 1 percent ." Women "...directed the same percent of the 250 top - grossing films in 2012 (9 percent) as they did in 1998 ." </P>

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