Posted on 01/03/2019 4:53:00 PM PST by EdnaMode
While Hollywood women have made incremental gains in below-the-line jobs like producing and editing, they backslid as feature film directors and continue on a path of “radical underrepresentation” in the industry, a new study says.
Martha Lauzen’s “Celluloid Ceiling,” a comprehensive report of women’s behind-the-scenes employment in film run out of San Diego State University, hit on Thursday — and its analysis comes with a blazing criticism that Hollywood’s value shift is only lip service until the industry commits to transparency.
“The study provides no evidence that the mainstream film industry has experienced the profound positive shift predicted by so many industry observers over the last year. This radical underrepresentation is unlikely to be remedied by the voluntary efforts of a few individuals or a single studio,” said Dr. Martha Lauzen, study author and executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at SDSU.
“Without a large-scale effort mounted by the major players – the studios, talent agencies, guilds, and associations – we are unlikely to see meaningful change. The distance from 8% to some semblance of parity is simply too vast. What is needed is a will to change, ownership of the issue – meaning the effort originates with the major players, transparency, and the setting of concrete goals. Will, ownership, transparency, and goals are the keys to moving forward,” Lauzen said.
Among the findings in a survey of employment of 3,076 individuals working on the top 250 domestic grossing films of 2018:
In 2018, women comprised 20% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing films. This represents an increase of 2 percentage points from 18% in 2017.
Last year, only 1% of films employed 10 or more women in the [the surveyed] roles. In contrast, 74% of films employed 10 or more men.
Women accounted for 8% of directors working on the top 250 films in 2018, down 3 percentage points from 11% in 2017. This is 1 percentage point below the 9% achieved in 1998.
Or, put another way in the same parameters: 92% of had no women directors, 73% had no women writers, 42% had no women exec. producers, 27% had no women producers, 74% had no women editors, and 96% had no women cinematographers.
As directors, a highly-visible change target with women like Ava DuVernay and awards hopefuls like Karyn Kusama at the front of the conversation, women fared the worst at 8% hired for the top 250 films last year. They were second only to cinematographers (only 4% of the top 250 films employed women, the same amount as in 2017).
It’s not all grim news. Women made the strongest showing as producers (26%) followed by executive producers (21%). Women composers were up 3%, sound editors up 2% and sound designers up by one from 2017.
For full findings and more information about Celluloid Ceiling, click here.
Not having attended a single film in 2018 I hardly noticed.
What is the percentage of women who are financing these movies?
Aw, fergawdsake. Get over yourselves!
These types of articles are designed to push a narrative and victim-shame perceived oppressors.
So who cares!?
The paying public decides what is a top film.
Take it up with them.
Slutbunnies have an endless stream of wannabe replacements. They’re interchangeable; get over it.
“”What is the percentage of women who are financing these movies?”
And, what is the population of women who want executive jobs? This article is nothing but radical feminist propaganda.
Captain Obious sez: “Get your own money and make your own friggin films.”
They chase their tails spazzing over identity hiring. One year it’s “Oscars So White,” now it’s not enough women, next year it’ll be not enough disabled people, then the incorrect dog:cat ratio, etc.
No wonder they’re too busy to make movies people LIKE.
Who leaves home to spend 2 hours watching women prattle on a giant screen?
Did someone inform Congressman Hank Johnson about this situation in Tinseltown. He implied in a speech that we Trump “followers” wanted to go back to a time when women and minorities “knew their place”. Last I checked Hollywood ain’t run by people like us. More examples of glaring liberal HYPOCRISY!
Sniff — let me get my hankie — boo-frickin’-hoo!
Great idea. They need to practice what they preach.
Actual researchers don’t do their own ‘analysis’ and they certainly don’t deliver scathng critiques. Like most feminist pseudoscience this is politics with a thin veneer of academia.
This is Nothing, the City of Los Angeles doesn’t have any females on any of their Paving or Pothole crews,None at CalTrans working on freeways either. Obviously they are Discriminating and should be Sued into oblivion,maybe even criminally charged
Classic leftist projection.
The reality is that people go see the men. You could substitute one woman, of similar talent, with another and nobody would know.
There are perhaps 3 women, in all of Hollywood, who could open a movie on their names. The rest don’t matter.
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