March 24th, 2016
I'll keep this brief because it's not cool beginning with what the annual report was titled:
"Renaissance in Reverse?"
Simply put it breaks down to this:
- Women make up less than 30% of working Hollywood writers.
- In the feature film side of the business women make $.68 on the dollar to their male counterparts.
- Minorities are under-representented 3:1 in TV and 5:1 in film.
- White males, ages 41-60 make the most money (and are employed the most).
Read it all in the link here. Feel free to break down my simplification if you want. It won't matter much because this report tells us what we've been hearing for years. With the exception of some TV, the business is harder to get into and harder to sustain as a career than every before.
And for more uplifting news, check out Maureen Dowd's interview with some of the brightest female talent in Hollywood here: