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Research by the Women’s Media Center concluded that women were often underrepresented on cable news programs during the presidential election — even on shows with female hosts. Analysts who appeared on CNN’s “New Day,” co-hosted by Camerota, were 68 percent male, for example.
Those in the latter group stood out as women recognized in non-acting categories, which are still dominated—to the tune of 80%—by men, according to a study by the Women’s Media Center. The most blatant boys’ club is the category of cinematography, which has—for the Oscars’ entire 89-year history—never seen a female nominee. Women were also absent among best director nominees for the seventh year in a row.
Women account for only 20 percent of the non-acting categories in the Academy’s 2017 nominations, and the already-abysmal number of female Oscar nominees across all categories dropped 2% from last year, according to a Women’s Media Center analysis
The Women’s Media Center recently found that women accounted for only 20 percent of this year’s non-acting Oscar nominees, a figure that lines up with similar findings by San Diego State researcher Martha Lauzen
In 2017, 80 percent of nominees in non-acting Oscars categories were men, according the Women's Media Center. Not only that, but zero women were up for Original Screenplay, while only one woman — Hidden Figures writer Allison Schroeder — received a nom for Adapted Screenplay.
Overall representation of women in Oscar-nominated behind-the-scenes categories fell 2 percent, according to a recent report from the Women’s Media Center.
It came as no surprise, then, when the Washington-based Women's Media Center crunched the Oscar numbers to reveal that only 20 percent of this year's non-acting nominees were female
In data compiled by the Women’s Media Center, an organization co-founded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, it was revealed that women represent only 20 per cent of the non-acting categories in the 89th annual Academy Award nominations.
A study by the Women’s Media Center found that only 20 percent of Academy Award nominations in categories from writing to editing to directing went to women this year. That’s in spite of the Academy inviting nearly 700 new voting members in mid-2016, including many women and people of color.
Only 20 percent of the non-acting categories in the 89th Academy Award nominations comprise women and most major categories such as best director and best writer woefully underrepresented women, according to a Women’s Media Center report, released Monday.
According to a Women’s Media Center analysis, female Oscar nominees dropped 2 percentage points from last year’s nominations although hundreds of new members were invited to the Academy over the past year. The last time a woman was nominated for Best Director was Kathryn Bigelow in 2009 for “The Hurt Locker.”
Despite a slew of films such as Jackie, 20th Century Women, Arrival, and La La Land featuring strong, complex women front-and-center, the number of female Oscar nominees for behind-the-scenes roles dropped at the 89th annual Academy Award nominations, announced Tuesday. In fact, according to an analysis by the Women’s Media Center, cofounded by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, only 20 percent of the non-acting categories featured women, dipping 2 percentage points from last year’s nominations
¿Puede colgarse ya la institución la medalla de lo políticamente correcto? Ni por asomo: un análisis de la ONG Women’s Media Center señala que la representación femenina en los Premios de la Academia sigue dejando mucho que desear. Fundado por la actriz Jane Fonda y las activistas Robin Morgan y Gloria Steinem, el Women’s Media Center se ha apartado de las categorías dramáticas (donde las actrices tienen reservadas sus propios lugares donde destacar) para fijarse en los premios técnicos y en los correspondientes a dirección y producción. Sus conclusiones: sólo un 20 por ciento de las categorías no dramáticas cuentan con mujeres nominadas, lo cual se queda muy por debajo de la proporción real entre géneros en la industria de Hollywood. Y no sólo eso, sino que también desciende un 2 por ciento sobre la cuota de 2016.
A study by the Women's Media Center found that women only made up 20 percent of the nominees in non-acting categories, which is down 2 percent from last year. This year also failed to see a woman nominated in the Best Director category, and it's also the 89th year in which a woman hasn't been included in the cinematographer category. Eighty-nine also happens to be the entire history of the iconic award show.
A study from the Women’s Media Center, a non-profit organization founded by Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, and writer Robin Morgan, has released a new report tracking the number of women nominated for non-acting Oscars this year. No female directors were nominated, the study points out (via Variety), while one female screenwriter, stories three times as often as women
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