Friday, January 12, 2018
Study finds that the number of women directors hasn’t really changed in 20 years
Salon.com: A new study confirms why Time's Up — a movement born in Hollywood — doesn't just have to help end sexual misconduct in the workplace or close the gender pay gap. There's also a strong need to make sure women are represented equally in leadership and decision-making roles in the entertainment industry as well.
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This article explains the tremendous disparity between female directors compared to male directors. This clearly has been a pervasive issue that his dogged Hollywood for years, and as such will be an issue into the future unless the powers that be in Hollywood make a concerted effort to change the culture that degrades and denigrates women as being less valuable than men. A 1% improvement in female directors over a 20 year period is a horrendous figure to go by considering the fact that in the same 20 year period we have seen substantial gains in women’s leadership in most other industries along with substantial changes and increased acceptance of LGBT individuals. In fact it is awfully hypocritical that Hollywood praises itself on being so progressive, yet over a 20 year period has managed a mere 1% increase in the number female directors (all the while other females in the industry are subject to horrible and pervasive sexual assault) . Initiatives such as “times up” are hopefully going to create real concrete change into the future that will end the horrible sexism that plagues Hollywood today.
Honestly, facts like these always manage to blow my mind. It is crazy to think that only four women have ever been nominated for an Academy Award when their are incredible female directors like Kimberly Pierce, like Patty Jenkins, like Ava DuVernay who have and are creating brilliant work but manage to go unseen to the common viewer. But then you look at the statistics, you realize that women only make up ’18 percent of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors and cinematographers working on the 250 top-grossing films from 2017” and “11 percent of directors working on the top 250 films in 2017”. And then you realize the stagnation over the past 20 years, that Hollywood has documented as slow change, and everything just becomes so clear. Rising 1 percent in 20 years isn’t change, it’s simply refusal to change. The need for a woman’s voice is so prevalent, as is the need for LGBT voices and POC voices, especially in movies or television shows that are centered around their issues and their stories.
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