Fig 4. Gender balance for four movie-making functions produced by the “Big Seven”—we drop disney from the “Big Eight” because during this period they focused on animation movies—and by the so-called Independents.

We compare female representation for all movies and for movies produced by each group of studios. Values for all movies use the same colors as in Fig 1. Values for movies produced by the “Big Seven” are shown in light yellow, and produced by the Independents in pink. Strikingly, during the first half of the 1920s, the “Big Seven” released movies with lower representation levels of females in both acting and producing.