#GoodRead | 'Thumbs down': female critics vastly outnumbered by male counterparts
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"'Thumbs down': female critics vastly outnumbered by male counterparts – new study":
The San Diego-based Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film (CSWTF) has published the report Thumbs Down 2016: Top Film Critics and Gender, which analyses the gender ratio of writers appearing on the film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. It has concluded that men outnumber women by 73% to 27%, a factor of more than two to one.