#GoodRead | Women Working In Film Aren’t Much Better Off Than In 1998, Study Finds
"Women Working In Film Aren’t Much Better Off Than In 1998, Study Finds":
The latest data is in for women employed on the 250 top-grossing films of 2016, and the numbers are abysmal – lower, in many cases, than in 1998 – according to San Diego State’s Center for the Study of Women in Film.
In her 19th annual “Celluloid Ceiling” report, Dr. Martha Lauzen found that women comprised only 17% of all directors, writers, producers, executive producers, editors, and cinematographers working on the top 250 domestic grossing films last year. “This represents a decline of two percentage points from last year,” she wrote, “and is even with the percentage achieved in 1998” – when she issued her first report.