THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE U.S MEDIA 2015

Female characters with clearly identifiable occupations accounted for 75 percent of
all females, while the rate was 85 percent for male characters. Likewise, 41 percent of
female characters and 59 percent of male characters were filmed in scenes capturing
them in their workplace.
Sixty-one percent of male characters versus 34 percent of female characters were
identified only by their roles as doctor, CEO or some other worker.
Fifty-eight percent of women were identified by such personal-life roles as wife or
mother, while 31 percent of men were fathers, husbands and so forth. Male and female
characters were equally likely to be identified in dual work-related and personal
life-related roles, with that rate standing at 8 percent of both genders.
The marital status of male characters was more likely to be unknown than that of
female characters, with the comparative rates standing at 59 percent and 46 percent.
Women and Hollywood:
Cannes Festival still lacking female filmmaker entrants
Days ahead of the May 2015 kickoff of the celebrity-lit, crowd-drawing international
film festival hosted yearly in the French Riviera city of Cannes, a critic for Women and
Hollywood on Indiewire asked this probing question: “Do people who program the
festival not feel comfortable with a female perspective and vision? I can’t answer that.
All I know is that over the last decade, only 9% of the films in the main competition have
been directed by women (and this year’s opening film, [“La Tete haute”] directed by
Ms. [Emmanuelle] Bercot, is not in competition).”
This infographic makes their case:
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