I would like to see such a set of metrics designed with a more statistical approach. The Bechdel test offers a simple but general metric for deciding whether a woman has played a non-superficial role in a movie. I think generality should be maintained in future tests, with a goal for a tendency toward equality across the industry, rather than equality within individual movies.<p>Take the term '50 percent' for example. If at least 50 percent of characters in a film must be female, then the target average across all movie characters is a female majority. While I'm not against movies with a female majority cast, there are also other films I would like to see that may have a male majority cast for historical reasons, that may not be net-negative toward women. War movies, perhaps.<p>Perhaps metrics should have weightings relative to the value of a given position. Approximate equality across crew still has significant value even if the cast is all-male.<p>Alternatively, rather than defining a metric in terms of some arbitrary definition of 'equal' (which becomes increasingly difficult as you add more minorities), perhaps a more useful metric would be defined in terms of 'away from unequal'. The Bechdel test already does this for female cast. Similar things can be done for crew. Similar things can even be done for the story.