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New study shows bias against women in film continues - Vox Indie
Yet again, women in Hollywood find themselves on the short end of the stick A new infographic by Slated (an organization that filmmakers with talent, financing & distribution) first published in The Hollywood Reporter exposes a "a systemic lack of trust on the part of the film industry when it comes to collaborating with women in the workplace." The infographic's authors used statistical analysis to look at 1,591 feature films released (theatrically) between 2010 and 2015 and published findings via an infographic. Bias was documented not only by the woefully low numbers of female directors, but even in categories like supporting actors where only 41% of the roles were filled by women. While such inequality has been highlighted in previous studies like the Celluloid Ceiling Report published by researchers at San Diego State, Slated's data analysis looks took another approach by asking, "how data science can best be harnessed to offset what is evidently a pattern of institutionalized bias at play in the marketplace."