The Women’s Media Center has released its annual report on Gender and Non-Acting Oscar Nominations. While some modest gains were made, overall representation for women remains stalled below one-third of nominees, indicating a stubborn resistance to change.

Gains made in female representation in non-acting categories for the Primetime Emmy Awards are being eroded as the total percentage of women who have been nominated for this year decreased, falling to 33% (while men garnered 67% of all non-acting nominations), according to a report released today by the Women’s Media Center, entitled Women’s Media Center 2025 Report: Gender and Non-Acting Emmy Nominations.

A new study finds a 5 percent drop in women nominated for Oscars in non-acting categories compared to last year. As speculation grows about winners of 2025 Academy Awards to be announced March 2, the report from the Women’s Media Center demonstrates that men continued their overall dominance and also gained ground in a majority of categories. If the percentage of women nominated declines, the chances of women winning Oscars in non-acting categories also drops.

While women made very slight progress in non-acting Primetime Emmy nominations in 2024, men by far remain the majority of nominees and therefore will win most of the awards at this week’s ceremony, according to a Women’s Media Center report released today.

Women made modest year-to-year gains in the non-acting nominations for the 2024 Academy Awards with 32% going to women, matching the previous high set in 2021. Even with an all-time high for women, men still overwhelmingly dominate with 68%, according to a new Women’s Media Center report.

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Women made no progress in non-acting Primetime Emmy Award nominations in 2023, and in the typically male-dominated categories, things are getting worse for women, according to the latest Women’s Media Center analysis.

Men have received 78% of non-acting Oscar nominations over the past 17 years and women 22%, according to an analysis by the Women’s Media Center. 

The report, “WMC Investigation: 17-Year Analysis of Gender & Non-Acting Academy Award Nominations,” concludes that there have been modest improvements in female representation from 2007 to 2023 but also that progress has been slow and uneven.

Gender parity remains elusive in non-acting Primetime Emmy Award nominations, with men capturing 67% of this year’s slots compared to 33% for women, whose numbers barely increased, according to the latest Women’s Media Center analysis.

Female representation dropped overall this year in the nominations for 18 non-acting categories for the 94th Academy Awards, according to a Women’s Media Center analysis.

WMC’s “The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2021” report draws data from 110 studies that together show the standing of women across all media, including legacy and digital news platforms, film, television, radio, technology, literature, and more.

Gender inequality in America’s newsrooms continues across all media platforms as men overall receive 65% of news bylines and credits and women 34%, according to the Women’s Media Center’s latest “Divided 2021: The Media Gender Gap.”

More than two-thirds of the guests on five prominent Sunday morning TV news shows in 2020 were men and most of those guests were White men, according to new report on gender and race representation released by the Women’s Media Center.

The number of women nominated for non-acting Primetime Emmys in 2021 decreased by three percentage points compared to 2020, according to a Women’s Media Center (WMC) analysis.

Despite women making history in the top categories at the Oscars, the number of female nominees in the 18 non-acting categories increased by only two percentage points this year, according to a Women’s Media Center analysis.