This research revises the gender roles male and female characters embody in Pixar Animation Studio's films during its first two decades of production . Gender roles are social constructs that maintain and restructure the masculinity and femininity ideals which a society has depending on a particular context.Pixar's films represent men and women in a way which cannot be understood if the time and socioeconomic context in which these films are made and watched are not taken into account. During these two decades, in western society, women are part of the labour world, they have access to university education and they are independent enough to choose for themselves. This social reality is inside Pixar's films too through female characters that look for autonomy, emotional independence and they show that they are ready for the female empowerment. In narrative aspects, female characters are increasing the time they appear in the film and they take on different narrative archetypes far from the wicked witch or the perfect Disney princess. The evolution of female characters in animation is happening thanks to the evolution in society but also to the increasing number of female members within creative groups of work, such as screenwriters and film directors that encourage their own point of view.Moreover, the evolution of female characters pushes and influences the evolution of male characters stereotyped as the new man or the new liberal man. They learn to listen, to respect, and to get involved in the emotional problems that bring them closer to a new fatherhood. However, under this image of gender equality, Pixar still presents us a world completely built and judged by male characters. In Pixar's films, the number of male characters double the female ones. There are more male characters (14 against 2) and they control the action. Male friendship is presented in 93,75% of the films analysed with subplots about friendship, in contrast with female friendship, which appears in 12% of the films. Girls live their lives following the objectives that men have and they (the girls again) always give support to male characters (43,75%). Female characters receive less attention for female objectives (12,56%). What is more, the male gender cannot live without women: girls are the object of desire of men in 92,30% of the films analysed. On the other hand, female characters are more independent and they only fall in love at first sight in 20% of the films. All this makes the overrepresentation of men in the narrative still alive and imposes a particular worldview. In Pixar, women are independent and are getting their own space, but it is still very little if we compare it to male characters. Women in Pixar are still insecure and apart from their old roles they also have to take on the role of the traditional male hero.