The Bechdal test is named named after the American cartoonist Alison Bechdal. The Bechdal test is also known as Bechdal-Wallace test. it as a measure of representation of women in fiction. It asks whether a work features at least two women who talks to each other about something other than men. The requirement that the two woman must be named is sometimes added. The rules now known as the Bechdal test first appeared in 1985 in Alison Bechdel's comic strip Dykes to watch out for . In a strip titled "the rule" two woman, are seen discussing a film and one woman explains that she only goes to a movie if it satisfies the following requirements :- 1. The movie has to have at least two woman in it. 2. Who talks to each other. 3. About something other than man The test is used as an indicator to show how active woman in the entire field of film and calls for gender equality. The test is not to show how feminist a movie is but it highlights how male dominant indian cinema reall
