Pie charts illustrating the findings of the Women's Media Center 2025 Report: Gender and Non-Acting Emmy Nominations
For the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards, 2,634 people have been nominated in 102 non-acting categories. Of these nominees, 855 (33%) are women, 1,774 (67%) are men, and five (less than 1%) are nonbinary. These percentages show slightly lower female representation compared to the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards.
When it comes to progress for women nominees in non-acting categories, it’s business as usual for the Primetime Emmys: The total percentage of women who got nominations in non-acting categories has continued to stall at below 40% every year.
Six pie charts highlighting the number and percentage of women, men, and non-binary nominees for the 2024 non-acting Emmy Awards.
For the annual Primetime Emmy Awards, the total numbers of women who get nominations in non-acting categories have continued to hit a proverbial “glass ceiling” of below 40% every year. The total numbers have not changed from the previous year: For the 2023 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, 33% of the non-acting nominees were women, the same percentage for the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards. And in typically male-dominated categories, things are getting worse for women.
For the annual Primetime Emmy Awards, the total numbers of women who get nominations in non-acting categories have continued to hit a proverbial “glass ceiling” of below 40% every year. The total numbers have not changed from the previous year: For the 2023 Primetime Emmy Award nominations, 33% of the non-acting nominees were women, the same percentage for the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards. And in typically male-dominated categories, things are getting worse for women.
Television is an industry where “gender parity” in non-acting jobs is often discussed but rarely achieved. And when it comes to the Primetime Emmy Awards, the total numbers of women who get nominations in non-acting categories have continued to stall at below 40% every year. For the 2022 Primetime Emmy Awards, 33% of the non-acting nominees are women. This is barely an increase from last year, when women were 32% of the non-acting nominees for the 2021 Primetime Emmy Awards.
The Primetime Emmy Awards have opened more doors for people to get nominated, but it doesn’t mean that more women are being invited inside. The number of women nominated for non-acting Primetime Emmys in 2021 decreased by three percentage points compared to 2020, according to the most recent Women’s Media Center (WMC) analysis.
The Primetime Emmy Awards have opened more doors for people to get nominated, but it doesn’t mean that more women are being invited inside. The number of women nominated for non-acting Primetime Emmys in 2021 decreased by three percentage points compared to 2020, according to the most recent Women’s Media Center (WMC) analysis.
The Primetime Emmy Awards have opened more doors for people to get nominated, but it doesn’t mean that more women are being invited inside. The number of women nominated for non-acting Primetime Emmys in 2021 decreased by three percentage points compared to 2020, according to the most recent Women’s Media Center (WMC) analysis.