Hollywood’s Onscreen Workforce Is Even Less Diverse Than Real Life

The percentage of women who make up the fictional workforce in entertainment is even lower than it is in real life, Geena Davis announced Thursday morning to a capacity crowd of 1,000-plus at the release of Mount Saint Mary’s University’s 2015 Report on the Status of Women and Girls in California. While 46.3 percent of the U.S. workforce is female, only 23.2 percent of employed characters depicted in domestic films is female, according to Gender Bias Without Borders, a global media study led by USC Annenberg professor Stacy L. Smith and released by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media last fall. Read More…