Let’s Rewrite Hollywood, Shall We?

The male gaze is yet another consequence of a wildly unbalanced Hollywood, in which just a quarter of behind-the-scenes television jobs, like director and producer—and a miserable 16 percent of film jobs—are held by women. That inequality is a hot topic lately: Dozens of female filmmakers recently went on the record with The New York Times Magazine’s Maureen Dowd, protesting being treated like second-class citizens in pigtails. And now the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is investigating Hollywood for sexism. But the problem is far from solved, and even as women have surpassed men as moviegoers and television watchers, the actual movies and TV shows remain steadily male-skewing. Read More…