In media, as in
all areas of leadership, we have a 17% problem. Regardless of what media you
chose - or sector of culture including government and business leadership, women
make up somewhere between 17-20% of producers and contributors, especially at
senior levels and where money and decision making happen. The status of Women
in Media, while slowly changing, is incontrovertible. News. Movies and
Entertainment. Gaming. History and literature. Magazines. Political narrative.
Online communities. School curricula. The number is, mercifully, slightly
higheron line. In advertising - a major form of very visible content - 97% of
creative directors are men. In movies, 75% of all producers, 80% of all
editors, 86% writers, 95% of all directors are men. On screen 77% of all
protagonists in top grossing films are male.
The result: We
tell every conceivable kind of story about boys and men - . Whereas we continue
to shroud the complexity and diversity or women's life experiences in
invisibility, shame and silence.
The only way any
of these ideas persists if you teach people through stories and pictures that
girls and women are sub-human abstractions and religious ideals and not
autonomous, morally competent human beings with rights. ~Soraya Chemaly
Painting by Elisabeth Slettnes
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