The Guardian - British cinema's gender imbalance worse in 2017 than 1913, says BFI study. Mark Brown, Arts correspondent Wednesday 20 September 2017 18.11 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/20/british-cinema-gender-imbalance-worse-2017-bfi-filmography
The vast amount of time for progression between these years would make anyone assume that there has been a large positive change of the gender imbalance within the film industry. This article displays the opposite of this assumption, even though the change within gender equality has been very positive for women since 1913.
"BFI’s new Filmography survey shows 31% of actors cast in films produced 104 years ago were women, with 2017’s figure 30%"
The 1% difference is very significant in visually making industry professionals and audiences aware of the lack of females starring in films. This is highly likely to come as a shock to most as there are countless numbers of incredible actresses appearing in films every week in the box office, making it understandable that audiences wouldn't pay much attention to the fact that most of the cast are male. In the modern world most industries comply to gender equality within job roles and have equal amounts of male and female staff, this survey shines a light on the film industry and gives readers the impression that it does not maintain gender equality when casting films.
"The filmography, which analyses more than 10,000 films and 250,000 cast and crew members, reveals that less than 1% of films made between 1913 and 2017 had a majority female crew"
This impression also applies to the crews producing the films, this is very eye opening as the UK film industry has a large amount of up and coming female crew members with equal education to any male crew member. This stirs the question as to why less than 1% of films had a female majority crew as the female numbers would be available. Due to the lack of stereotypes in the modern day, film production is not seen as a male career path anymore which makes these statistics more puzzling. As stated in the article these statistics shocked well known actresses and film directors, this feeling is mutual for those who aspire to be similar to them and gain a place within the industry. Hopefully this will encourage them to keep pushing towards their dreams and make a change to the shocking statistics that should be an eye opener for those with power within the film industry.
The vast amount of time for progression between these years would make anyone assume that there has been a large positive change of the gender imbalance within the film industry. This article displays the opposite of this assumption, even though the change within gender equality has been very positive for women since 1913.
"BFI’s new Filmography survey shows 31% of actors cast in films produced 104 years ago were women, with 2017’s figure 30%"
The 1% difference is very significant in visually making industry professionals and audiences aware of the lack of females starring in films. This is highly likely to come as a shock to most as there are countless numbers of incredible actresses appearing in films every week in the box office, making it understandable that audiences wouldn't pay much attention to the fact that most of the cast are male. In the modern world most industries comply to gender equality within job roles and have equal amounts of male and female staff, this survey shines a light on the film industry and gives readers the impression that it does not maintain gender equality when casting films.
"The filmography, which analyses more than 10,000 films and 250,000 cast and crew members, reveals that less than 1% of films made between 1913 and 2017 had a majority female crew"
This impression also applies to the crews producing the films, this is very eye opening as the UK film industry has a large amount of up and coming female crew members with equal education to any male crew member. This stirs the question as to why less than 1% of films had a female majority crew as the female numbers would be available. Due to the lack of stereotypes in the modern day, film production is not seen as a male career path anymore which makes these statistics more puzzling. As stated in the article these statistics shocked well known actresses and film directors, this feeling is mutual for those who aspire to be similar to them and gain a place within the industry. Hopefully this will encourage them to keep pushing towards their dreams and make a change to the shocking statistics that should be an eye opener for those with power within the film industry.
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