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Where Have All The Female Directors Gone? Illustration: Ciara Kenny It all started with Beryl Richards. Beryl’s a screen director based in London. She’s won two BAFTAs and has a seriously good drama CV . But this time last year, Beryl became anxious that her career was stalling. Furthermore, Beryl had a feeling there were fewer women directing drama than she remembered. But she couldn’t tell if this was a subjective judgement - and anyway, as a freelance director she felt there wasn’t much she could do about it. There are no hiring policies, there’s no HR Department overseeing things. Almost all film and TV directors, producers and cinematographers are freelance. This is where Directors UK had a brainwave. It turns out that Beryl’s original hunch was correct. The numbers are irrefutable. Neasa Hardiman is is a Director and Writer for film and TV. Women in View Releases Report on the Status of Women Working in TV in Canada | Women and Hollywood.

Women in View, a national non-profit organization dedicated to revitalizing the Canadian media industry by strengthening gender and cultural diversity both on screen and behind the scenes released a report Focus on Women 2013 and convened a symposium -- Sex Money Media -- to discuss the statistics and what needs to be done to change them. One of the author's of the report and Women in View's Executive Director Rina Fraticelli is calling for a 60-40 split: "no more than 60 per cent and no fewer than 40 per cent of either gender on sets. " Here's some language from their executive summary. (The full report can be read here. ) Canadian women represent more than half the population, and close to half the labour pool, but a much smaller proportion of the work force in television, particularly in the areas of creative influence and financial control.

The stats: Here are some points from the conclusion: "My Canada Includes Women. " Shortage of Women Behind the Camera (The Toronto Star) Men Directed 85% of TV Shows Last Season | Women and Hollywood. By Melissa Silverstein | Women and Hollywood September 28, 2012 at 12:31PM Here's a sucky statistic brought to you by the Director's Guild of America: men directed 85% of all TV episodes last season. These stats include all network and cable scripted TV shows - about 3,100 episodes. Here's a sucky statistic brought to you by the Director's Guild of America: men directed 85% of all TV episodes last season. These stats include all network and cable scripted TV shows - about 3,100 episodes.

Paris Barclay and Lesli Linka Glatter chair the diversity efforts at the Guild which honestly suck. The guild should be embarrassed since the numbers barely moved from the previous year. Here are some quotes from both of them. Paris Barclay: “Our industry has to do better...In this day and age, it’s quite disappointing that so many shows failed to hire even a single woman or minority director during the course of an entire season – even shows whose cast and crew otherwise is notably diverse. And. Late-night’s real problem. If we can agree on anything following the week of the big Leno-Conan shakeup, it’s that late-night these days is, well, kind of lame. Leno moving to 11:30? That’s like getting back together with the dumb boyfriend you finally dumped last year. There are so many weak links — corporate meddling, dwindling viewership, multimedia competition, a spectacularly un-21st-century monopoly of male hosts — that there’s no one quick fix.

But those hoping to try something new might heed the advice of former David Letterman scribe and sitcom veteran Nell Scovell, who, in the wake of the Letterman sex scandal last year, made a convincing case on VanityFair.com for improving late-night comedy. Indeed, if aliens landed tomorrow and analyzed the writing staffs of late-night comedy shows — Earth’s daily dose of mainstream humor — they might draw the conclusion that laughter is almost exclusively the domain of the human male. Well, speaking of fart jokes, let’s start in the writers’ room. Why Is Television Losing Women Writers? Veteran Producers Weigh In.

As the fall TV season approaches, it's worth taking a closer look at the people who have created and written the scripted fare you'll see. In the 2006-2007 television season, 35 percent of the writers of broadcast network, prime-time programs were women, according to an annual study by San Diego State University's Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film. In the 2010-2011 season, that number had dropped by more than half, to 15 percent. What happened? Since the latest edition of the annual SDSU study came out two weeks ago, I've posed that question to a dozen experienced television writers and creators, female and male alike. For some, it confirmed their worst fears. Today, everyone seems to agree in principle that diversity is desirable for a whole host of reasons, some of them pragmatic. "A balanced writers room is like a balanced world.

But the SDSU study isn't the only one showing that progress for women writers has, at best, stalled. The Economic Factor Ad Advice.