In 1985, graphic novelist Alison Bechdel came up with criteria for whether she'd watch a movie. It's become known as the Bechdel test, and it's surprisingly hard for films to pass these days.

The Bechdel Test first appeared in a 1985 strip of “Dykes to Watch Out For,” a long-running comic by cartoonist and writer Alison Bechdel (“Fun Home”).

The Bechdel Test continues to be “a very useful tool to highlight the poor representation of female characters,” said Martha M. Lauzen, ...

Oppenheimer does not pass the Bechdel test, because it does not have a scene that features more than two women in a scene, who talk about something other than a man.

What do Dolly Parton, David Bowie, and Robert Smith of The Cure have in common? For one, an inimitable grasp on the power of ...

Apothecary Diaries passes the Bechdel Test by featuring conversations between women on topics other than men. The show offers a fresh perspective by showcasing strong female characters in a male ...

First appearing in 1985, cartoonist and writer Alison Bechdel and her friend Liz Wallace devised the Bechdel Test as a straightforward evaluation method used to explore the representation of ...

Inspired by the popular Bechdel-Wallace Test — which measures the representation of women in TV and film — the Climate Reality Check is a simple tool designed to measure climate change on screen.

That’s the Hotel Art Thief guarantee. In a sea of TikTok-literate comedians who aim to parody the slop from within the slop, ...

To her surprise, Bechdel — and I’m sure plenty of other women since its creation in 1985 — realized that a lot more films than she thought didn’t pass the test. I urge you to sift through your ...