This should brighten up your Tuesday a bit: Women made up 29 percent of the protagonists of the 100 top grossing films in 2016. According to the latest “It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World” report from Dr. Martha Lauzen of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, this figure reflects “an increase of 7 percentage points from 2015 and a recent historical high.”

Lauzen’s research concluded, “While audiences were still more than twice as likely to see male characters [instead of] female characters in top grossing movies, females fared better as protagonists and major characters in 2016.”

After reviewing “It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World,” we decided to find out where these films with female protagonists ranked in the top 100 movies of 2016. According to the numbers at Box Office Mojo, movies with female protagonists are distributed fairly evenly throughout the list — except at the top. Most of those films feature male protagonists.

While the two highest-grossing movies of 2016 were “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and “Finding Dory” (both featuring a female protagonist), the next woman-led film on the list is “Moana” in eleventh place. Here are the complete rankings of films with female protagonists in 2016:

1 “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”
2 “Finding Dory ”
11 “Moana”
18 “Hidden Figures”
21 “Ghostbusters”
25 “Bad Moms”
29 “Arrival”
34 “Don’t Breathe”
39 “Alice Through the Looking Glass”
41 “The Girl on the Train”
45 “Lights Out”
47 “The Divergent Series: Allegiant”
50 “The Boss”
52 “Miracles from Heaven”
54 “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2”
57 “Me Before You”
61 “The Shallows”
66 “The Huntsman: Winter’s War”
69 “How to Be Single”
74 “Money Monster”
76 “Nerve”
82 “Ouija: Origin of Evil”
83 “The 5th Wave”
85 “Mother’s Day”
93 “Florence Foster Jenkins”
95 “The Forest”
97 “The Witch”
98 “Bridget Jones’s Baby”
100 “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”

As the report details, the number of women onscreen in the top 100 films of 2016 correlates with the number of women behind the camera. “Films with at least one woman director and/or writer featured higher percentages of female protagonists, major female characters, and females in speaking roles than films with exclusively male directors and/or writers,” Lauzen found. Women represented 57 percent of protagonists in films with at least one female director or writer. Conversely, women comprised only 18 percent of protagonists in exclusively men-helmed movies.

Although this report is fairly good news for women in film as a whole, it highlights the double bind women of color face in Hollywood. According to Lauzen, “The [2016] findings for race and ethnicity were a mixed bag.” Women characters were overwhelmingly white at 76 percent. Meanwhile, the figure for Asian female characters (six percent) doubled from the previous year, and the number of black female characters only slightly increased to 14 percent. The number of Latina characters dipped to three percent.

Find highlights from “It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World: Portrayals of
Female Characters in the Top 100 Films of 2016” below. Check out the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film website for additional information.

• Females comprised 29 percent of protagonists featured in the 100 top domestic grossing films of 2016. This represents an increase of seven percentage points from 2015 and is a recent historical high.
• In 2016, females accounted for 37 percent of major characters. This represents an increase of three percentage points from 2015. It is also a recent historical high.
• Women comprised 32 percent of all speaking characters, a decrease of one percentage point from 2015
• Overall, audiences were more than twice as likely to see male characters as female characters in 2016
• The percentage of Asian females doubled from three percent in 2015 to six percent in 2016
• The percentage of black female characters increased slightly from 13 percent in 2015 to 14 percent in 2016
• The percentage of Latina characters declined slightly from four percent in 2015 to three percent in 2016
• Gender stereotypes remained prominent. Female characters were less likely than males to be seen at work, actually working, and were less likely to be portrayed as leaders.
• Female characters were younger than their male counterparts