Recently, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed grievances with both state and federal agencies regarding the "systemic failure to hire women directors at all levels of the film and television industry.”
According to the ACLU, women only make up about 7 percent of the 250 highest-grossing films of 2014. This number, they claim, is unacceptable, and is lower than it was in the late '90s.
“The failure to hire women directors in film and television cannot be attributed to a lack of qualified or interested women," said the announcement. "Women are well represented in prominent film schools such as USC, NYU, and UCLA; while hard numbers are hard to come by, estimates place the number of women students focusing on directing as roughly equal to the number of men.”
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According to the ACLU, women only make up about 7 percent of the 250 highest-grossing films of 2014. This number, they claim, is unacceptable, and is lower than it was in the late '90s.
“The failure to hire women directors in film and television cannot be attributed to a lack of qualified or interested women," said the announcement. "Women are well represented in prominent film schools such as USC, NYU, and UCLA; while hard numbers are hard to come by, estimates place the number of women students focusing on directing as roughly equal to the number of men.”
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