guardiancomment: joshsternberg: An interesting graph of jobs in the movies by decade. Occupations of the two top-billed characters, in the top-ten highest grossing films per year (1926-2010). Each job arranged by gender distribution and the decade of most frequent occurrence. In cases of ties between decades the size of the circle and gender distribution shows is that of the job, total. The 50 most common jobs are shown. (h/t @zseward) In the 2000s, if you’re a woman: nurse, If you’re a man: professor. Hm. Jesus look at the ’90s! Where are the female professions? Were there just no top billed female characters in top 10 highest grossing films for the entire decade?! Am I reading this wrong?

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joshsternberg:

An interesting graph of jobs in the movies by decade.

Occupations of the two top-billed characters, in the top-ten highest grossing films per year (1926-2010). Each job arranged by gender distribution and the decade of most frequent occurrence. In cases of ties between decades the size of the circle and gender distribution shows is that of the job, total. The 50 most common jobs are shown.

(h/t @zseward)

In the 2000s, if you’re a woman: nurse, If you’re a man: professor. Hm.

Jesus look at the ’90s! Where are the female professions? Were there just no top billed female characters in top 10 highest grossing films for the entire decade?! Am I reading this wrong?

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  2. zan77 reblogged this from guardiancomment and added:
    Interesting graph is interesting. I can’t decide if the yawning emptiness of the women’s half in the 80s & 90s is a good...
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    I think you may be a smidge. It’s plotting the “top 50” jobs on a (3D scatter) graph i.e. given a job, you look at its...
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    Jesus look at the ’90s! Where are the female professions? Were there just no top billed female characters in top 10...
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  10. guardiancomment reblogged this from joshsternberg and added:
    In the 2000s, if you’re a woman: nurse, If you’re a man: professor. Hm.
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