Chart of the Day: Women in Hollywood Disappear at Age 40

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Over at Wonkblog, Jeff Guo provides the skinny on women in Hollywood:

Women in their 20s get a fair number of starring roles. But as soon as they hit 30, their careers fall off a cliff. By their 40s they’re all but invisible.

This data is for films made over the past century. I’d be curious to see the same thing for the past ten or twenty years. I can’t quite figure out if I think it’s likely to be better or worse. But I think I’d guess worse.