THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE U.S MEDIA 2015

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On New York City stages, women faced their own gender challenges Here’s an added, essential aside: In the Big Apple, the East Coast’s entertainment capital, theater-watchers have been noting a gender gap on stage. The League of Professional Theatre Women reported in September 2014 that during the 2010 through 2014 seasons, in 13 areas of Off-Broadway theater employment: Women playwrights, according to the league’s “Women Hired Off-Broadway 2010-2014” report, ranged from a high of 36 percent hired in 2012-2013 to a low of 28 percent in 2013-14. Women directors ranged from a high of 39 percent in 2012-13 to a low of 24 percent in 2011-12. Women set designers ranged from a high of 36 percent in 2012-13 to a low of 27 percent in 2010-11. Regarding the bigger, costlier Broadway shows, Lee & Low Books, a multicultural children’s book publisher, also took a look at the diversity gap in the Tony Awards: 70 WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2015 TOC womensmediacenter.com
WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER In gaming, social media and technology Across the Internet’s main social, professional and search engine companies, men also dominated—especially at the top Women have long been grossly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and math, a reflection of how much females have not chosen those fields and of how much, some say, those fields have historically been less welcoming to women. At least in part, that comparatively lesser count of women in those so-called STEM fields may be contributing to the underrepresentation of women in Internet workforces where the jobs are disproportionately technical and still dominated by men—and where executives, nevertheless, have vowed to mix up those numbers. USA Today, among others, reported that Google spent $115 million on diversity initiatives in 2014 and planned to spend $150 million in 2015. (In February 2015, Google gave $775,000 to the nonprofit Code2040, a group focused on attracting more blacks and Latinos to tech.) On Google’s heels, in early 2015, Intel announced that it would spend $60 million during each of the next five years on diversity, and Apple, to diversify its ranks, said it would funnel $50 million through such nonprofit organizations as the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the National Center for Women & Information Technology. Facebook has also made a financial commitment to increase its diversity and COO Sheryl Sandberg had previously established the Lean In mentoring network for corporate managers, computer science professors and others in male-dominated tech. Given the relatively slow pace of change—and reluctance of some social media giants to disclose their numbers—Open Diversity Data, which advocates diversity through transparency, in June 2014 launched an online campaign for a host of computer, tech, social media and related firms to willingly and quickly publish the employment data that they already collect. Largely pressured by advocates and outsiders to release their employment data— and saying they were embarrassed by what their numbers show, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter and Yahoo presented data depicting how much they mirrored each other’s lack of diversity. By latest count, Facebook had more than 1.35 billion members worldwide. According to company figures released in June 2014, through a “Building a More Diverse Facebook” blog post by the company’s Global Head of Diversity Maxine Williams, Facebook’s workforce is: 69 percent male overall, and 77 percent male in the leadership ranks. 57 percent white, 34 percent Asian, 4 percent Latino, 3 percent bi-racial or multi-racial and 2 percent Black overall. Of workers in tech jobs, 85 percent were male and 15 percent were female. Of all those tech workers, 53 percent were white, 41 percent were Asian, 3 percent were Latino, 2 percent were bi-racial or multi-racial and 1 percent was black. Of workers in non-tech sectors, 53 percent were male and 47 percent were female. Of non-tech sector jobs, 63 percent were held by whites, 24 percent by Asians, 6 percent by Latinos, 4 percent by bi-racial or multi-racial persons, 2 percent by blacks and 1 percent by people of some other race. The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2015 TOC womensmediacenter.com 71
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