“Hollywood is a big boys’ club — a big, white boys’ club,” said Jennifer Warren, chairwoman of the Alliance of Women Directors and a former actor and director. The investigation was prompted by the American Civil Liberties Union, which prodded government agencies to explore the gender imbalance documented in reports from USC and the Directors Guild of America. In the Directors Guild, which has 16,000 members, women account for just 15.1% of directors and 23.4% of directorial teams, which include assistant directors and stage managers. Only about 19% of the 4,500-member Teamsters Local 399, which represents casting directors, location managers and animal handlers, are women. The problem extends to cinematographers, audio and music production, music composition and other technical aspects of the industry.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 30, 2017 09:56 UTC