The glass ceiling in Hollywood is not only still in effect but as tough and annoyingly impenetrable as a wall of bricks, according to an annual study on women and employment in top-grossing American movies. Only 16 percent of people working in key behind-the-scenes roles in top-grossing domestic 2013 movies were women, down from 2012 and 1998, the year the study first took shape. In 2013, women accounted for only 6 percent of U.S. directors...I think it is stunning to see that the numbers for women working in those key roles is slightly down from 16 years ago, says Martha M. Lauzen, the author of the study. We seem to be in this state of gender inertia, where the numbers of women working behind the scenes are not moving...Altogether, the study’s stats are staggering. Women accounted for only 10 percent of writers working on these top films, down from 2012 and 1998. A measly 2 percent of special effects supervisors were women, and 97 percent of top 2013 movies had no female sound designers. - TakePart Whats your take?
Posted on: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:54:18 +0000
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