Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Study: 2014's Top 700 Films Confirm That Women Hire Women
Women and Hollywood: A new study looking at the top 700 domestic films of 2014 concludes that women directed 13% of last year's theatrical releases and demonstrates that female filmmakers are much more likelier than their male counterparts to hire other women in important behind-the-scenes roles.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Yay for more women in film! I have a close friend studying film at NYU currently and I’m so excited to see that at least another woman will hire her in her professional career. All sarcasm aside, it is still pitiful to see women’s statistics hitting such low marks all around the entertainment industry. I understand the numbers are growing, but if you think about the origins of any industry, did men have to wait for their numbers to grow? Not that I’ve heard of. They’ve just had to wait for an art form to become popular. These numbers are probably rooted in the earlier article about women being mistreated in film school, and the ideologies men often have that women are supplementary and not as talented or as strong as leaders or such and such. I’m happy this research is out in the open and is available for everyone to see, because maybe it’s the spark women need to start fighting back, or at least for men to realize that they can’t have it all forever.
Well, in other news, water is wet. When we have the opportunity to choose our collaborators, we choose people who are going to inspire and motivate us. If I had that position, probably after busting my butt in the industry, I would use my power to bring more women onto the project that might have been looked over in the wide world of film. Granted that the ratios of men to women working film are so skewed, it makes me happy to see these women being so open and accepting when it comes to the gender gap. It would have been easy to, once in that position of power, to feel that in order to maintain your already tedious foot you (as a female) have to hire men. Because, hey, a job is a job, and in this industry, people talk. Once you open the door, we're coming in for you, film. Women find solidarity within each other, an excuse that men have been using since the dawn of time.
Post a Comment