CRI 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Travis Kalanick, Evan Spiegel, Samantha Bee
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Lecture 6: human resources and diversity in creative industries. Women make up 48. 2% of the general workforce and visible minorities make up 17. 8% (eear, 2014) Women represent only 43% of the screen workforce (wift, 2012) The underrepresentation is especially the case once you get to creative decision making roles. Davis et al. (2012): just over 4% of canadian screenwriters are visible minorities; 35% are women. Wiv (2015): in 2013, women represented 17% of film directors, 22% of film writers, 12% of film cinematographers, 17% of tv directors, 38% of tv writers, and 0% of tv cinematographers. Web series: women held 14% of director positions: 27% of writer positions; 2% of cinematography positions; 50% of the funded web series employed 0 women in any of these roles (zboralska as published) Ipf funded web series (prelim funding"s) visible minorities held 7% of directing roles; 4% of writer positions (zboralska, forthcoming)