Women Still Underrepresented Behind the Camera in Film, No Gains Since 1998

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Only seven percent of 2014’s Top 250 films were directed by women, according to a study by San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film Women continue to be far outnumbered by their male counterparts in behind the scenes jobs in Hollywood, according to a new study.

The 2014 “Celluloid Ceiling” study by San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film shows that women made up only 17% of directors, writers, executive producers, producers, editors, and cinematographers who worked on the Top 250 domestic grossing movies of the year. The figure marks a one percent increase from 2013’s study, though 17% is the exact percentage of women who worked in those same roles back in 1998, the first year the Celluloid Ceiling study was conducted.


Women Still Underrepresented Behind the Camera in Film, No Gains Since 1998