More Female Execs Needed Hollywood to Stem Sexist Rot - My article in reaction to Harvey Weinstein Scandal

Why has this culture been allowed to continue for decades and decades? It is a well recorded fact that the movie business is a male dominated one – an exclusive club at that. More women are graduating from the world’s top film and television schools and, with a 50/50 male/female split in most cases, often outperforming, achieving higher grades, than their male counterparts, so why are they not in positions of power equal to men? To date, there has only been one female Oscar winning director, Kathryn Bigelow (2009) since the Academy Awards began in 1929. And almost all of the movie moguls, who wield star-making powers, are male. 

Read my full article here:

https://theconversation.com/more-female-movie-executives-would-stem-the-sexist-rot-in-hollywood-85630