Monday, April 06, 2015
Announcing Not Even: A Gender Parity Study of Bay Area Theatres
WomenArts: WomenArts is proud to announce the release of Not Even: A Gender Analysis of 500 San Francisco/Bay Area Theatrical Productions, 2011-2014 by Valerie Weak Founder of the Counting Actors Project, in collaboration with Martha Richards, Executive Director of WomenArts, and Christine Young, Founder of Works by Women San Francisco and Professor of Theatre at University of San Francisco.
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While disappointing, I was actually a little pleasantly surprised by reading this. The numbers were more even than I was anticipating which I found reassuring even though the numbers still weren't good. What I don't understand is why these percentages have, on average, gotten lower instead of improving over the last three years. And these graphs don't even start to get into the increased difficulty for actors (particularly female actors) of color. I'm positive the numbers would be even worse if that was taken into consideration. It's good to see more studies such as this one being done to raise awareness for what the issue is and hopefully spark a debate about how to change things.
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