Bechdel Test Movie List

In this classic Western, the focus is off men and on women. A male character who normally makes his living transporting herds of cattle signs on to recruit 150 women from Chicago and move them on foot and in wagons across impossible terrain to a newly formed town in California that needs wives. The named female characters of Patience Hawley, Rose Meyers, Maggie O'Malley, Jean Johnson, Fifi Danon, Laurie Smith, and Mrs. Maroni have numerous conversations about their individual goals and struggles; teach each other to use bullwhips, shoot guns, drive mules; and argue with each other when any of them aren't working hard enough to finish the journey.