Character counts?

[beccaelizabeth]

Is anyone doing counting for characters that are women or people of color any more?

http://characterscount.pbworks.com/w/page/15546210/FrontPage
has a bunch of series but most recent I can see it updated was 1 year 8 months ago.

I started counting Doctor Who but forgot to do that while I was rewatching just now and really ought to have other things to do.
ETA: But seeing as I couldn't think of anything else, I just added counts for season 5.

It makes interesting numbers.


Stargate season 1 was 25% women 1997/98
Stargate season 2 was 28% women 1998/99
Stargate season 3 was 25% women 1999/2000
Stargate season 4 was 26% women 2000/01

Supernatural season 1 was 37% women 2005

Torchwood season 1 average 37% women 2006
Torchwood season 2 average 39% women 2008

Merlin season 1 was 30% women 2008



Doctor Who

series 1 39% 2005
series 2 41% 2006
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season 5 37% or 39% 2010





I like having numbers to argue with, or about. It might only be able to say x show is y % women but otherwise we have only fuzzy 'needs more women!'

Of course counting weighted by how much screen time or how many lines would give a useful picture too, but that takes rather a lot of work.
Just making a list of speaking characters and saying bloke or bird about them is a bit simpler.

Comments

[baronjanus]

The Israeli Knesset 2013 has 27 women in it (of 120 people), the highest number/percentage ever.

And yes, that sentence is not "yay", it's depressing.