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Geena Davis Institute study shows gender gap in film/TV is prevalent worldwide

Geena Davis Institute study shows gender gap in film/TV is prevalent worldwide

by The Daily Eye Team October 8 2014, 2:12 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 50 secs

Geena Davis is more than an actress, she’s an advocate for gender equality in film and TV. The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media just released new data showing that women aren’t just getting a short shrift here in the U.S., but in movies all around the world. The news is grim. Fewer than 31 percent of all speaking parts go to women. American movies feature fewer female characters than movies in South Korea, Russia and China. What’s more, many of those female characters appear either in sexually revealing attire and few have professional jobs. Women make up only 17 percent of roles as background actors — think extras with non-speaking parts — in both animated and live-action family-rated films. “Maleficent” and “Frozen” might be doing well at the box office, but the report finds the percentage of female speaking characters in the most popular movies has not meaningfully changed in half a century.

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Former Director Ideation at Zee Network, filmmaker and writer Vinta Nanda is the editor of The Daily Eye, and has recently directed a feature-length documentary on feminism in India titled #SHOUT. Vinta produced, directed and wrote television serials including Tara, Raahein, Raahat, Aur Phir Ek Din and Miilee. Her film, White Noise (2004), was screened at international film festivals. Her Edutainment work includes the serials Sheila and Kasbah, feature film Anant, and Documentary, The Distant Thunder and she led The Third Eye program from 2013 to 2018 in partnership with Hollywood Health and Society, Norman Lear Center, USC Annenberg, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which built platforms for interactions  between creative communities and specialists, experts, social scientists and activists to initiate the idea of conscious storytelling.


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