Here’s a recent article from the UK vibing on similar themes as this blog. Lots of meaty stats to regurgitate at the doubters: https://almanac.ipsos-mori.com/give-us-a-smile-girls-why-the-portrayal-of-women-in-advertising-has-far-to-go/
From December, 2017
Bechdel! NZ Police Recruitment video
If your script begins with “We open on our hero female police woman leading a team into action”, you’ve kicked things off well. Freeze! NZ Police Recruitment Video manages to be aspirational, informative, entertaining (a much-neglected quality) and stereotype-shattering all at once. The police aren’t characterised as a bunch of aggressive, donut-eating white blokes, but…