where the girls aren't
Underbalanced representation for women in the cartoon world. Seems a majority of our cute G-rated clown fish, toy cowboys, and those adorably headed-for-plush lions are little dudes.
They studied the 101 top-grossing G-rated films released between 1990 and 2005, analyzing 4,249 speaking characters. They discovered that more than two out of three of those characters were male and that the female characters were much less likely to be central to the narrative.
My totally other favorite bit is where female cartoons only make up 17% of the crowd scenes. It's too rich! Too too! Happy Valentine's Day!
(Thanks to Anne Ishii for the link.)