Go to the link I gave you from the Geena Davis Institute and it will give you a breakdown of things from recent years in various categories, including changes from prior years. Improvement is great (although that's not always the case) - having it still be grim is not.
In 2023 all popular programming, male characters outnumber female characters by 13.4 percentage points (56.7% male characters compared with 43.3% female characters). This is nearly identical to 2022, when 56.9% of all characters were male and 43.1% were female.
The gap widens when looking at only English-only popular programming (57.5% male characters compared with 42.5% female characters). In 2022 English-only popular programming, 57.7% of all characters were male and 42.3% were female.
Among leading roles, female characters are 43.8% of leading roles. This is a 7.3-percentage-point decrease from 2022 (51.1%), and a 5-percentage-point decrease from 2021 (48.8%).
The biggest gender gap across roles is for minor characters. In all popular programming, male characters make up 60.7% of minor characters whereas female characters make up 39.3% — a 21.4 percentage point difference. In 2022, male characters made up 61.3% of minor roles, while female characters made up 38.7% — a 22.6-percentage-point difference.
Female characters are significantly more likely than male characters to be LGBTQIA+ (1.6% compared with 0.2%).
Male characters are significantly more likely than female characters to have a job (42.9% compared with 33.4%).
In 2023 popular programming, characters of color make up 52.0% of all characters, compared with 71.9% in 2022.
In English-only popular programming, characters of color make up 40.5% of characters, compared with 52.7% in 2022.
