According to the WMC’s annual analysis of the Emmy nominations, there was no overall change in the percentage of women nominated in the 89 non-acting categories this year. However, the combined key categories of writing, directing, editing, and producing see women only gaining one percentage point in representation (up from 25 last year to 26 this year).
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If acting/on-screen Emmys were not split by gender, every time a male actor won the award, the world would decry the Academy's sexism. Production Emmys are not split up by gender. If they were, the public would complain that women had an easier time winning Emmys because of the male-heavy gender ratio in television production crews. I think the system is flawed, but do not personally have a solution. It would be cliché to blame the patriarchy, but in this case, I think the patriarchy is an appropriate villain. Current television production is evolving past the sexism of both the twentieth century and the traditional studio-based system. Twenty-first century values and new types of media allow women to smash the glass ceiling into previously-male dominated roles. When the studio heads of yesteryear die, hopefully their misogynistic values die with them.
The issues of general sexism and disproportionate numbers of women in higher positions in film and television that this article are not new ones. This is a conversation that has been had over and over again in many contexts, especially in the last few years and especially as awards season begins to roll around. While the reiteration of this conversation is not exactly surprising to me, it is a little unbelievable that we are having the same articles being written again. I think that while it is important to remind the general public about sexism in Hollywood, we also need to start coming with some answers instead of only more statistics about how poorly things are being handled in the industry. How can we start seeing more women nominated in more Emmy categories? How can we make it more necessary for production companies to hire women? These are the questions that are still not being answered, and that is more of an issue than any statistics.
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