Why are women and minorities poorly represented in Hollywood?

Why are women and minorities poorly represented in Hollywood?

Ethnic and cultural women and ethnic groups remain clearly underrepresented in the American film industry, in front of or behind the camera, despite a slight improvement in some categories, according to an annual report released Thursday.

200 films and 1,316 TV shows screened. For the sixth consecutive year, the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) screened 200 films released in 2017 and 1,316 TV shows. The difference to Hollywood "also studies in the 12 categories of women and people as" non-white "in the United States, ie Asian, Latin American, Arab, Métis of all kinds, etc.).

Progress "very marginal, if not non-existent". "Behind the scenes or in front of the camera, progress for people of color and women remains very marginal, if not non-existent," the report's authors said in a statement.

This is the time of the conference of the minorities has certified progressed passes from 13.9% to 19.8% in 2017. But it is From now on, the United States is a minority. Women take a little less of the game, with 32.9% of the main roles (+ 2% compared to 2016) but the parity is still far from being reached.

More diversity on television. The situation is slightly more favorable for television, going through the phenomenal video-on-demand platforms like Netflix, Amazon or Hulu, boosted diversity. "The meeting of technological change and demographic change has created an environment that is today ripe for changing the habits of the audiovisual sector," analyze the report, which hopes that television will show the way to Hollywood.