Where Have All the Women Writers Gone
Posted by Jennifer Girling on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 in (0) Comments • Permalink •
Where Have All The Women Writers Gone? Long Time Passing.
As discussed earlier in the article entitled “Women Can’t Create and White Men Can’t Jump” posted on February 4, 2010 at www.blssresearch.com, this has been a dreadful year for women’s participation in the pilot production season. The final announcement of pilot pickups in Variety on Monday, February 22, 2010 added one interesting and significant detail in reporting the CW’s choices. The CW picked up 6 pilots for production and of those 6, 3 were written by women (in partnership or alone) – a whopping 50%! But even with the new network pick-ups, and despite the CW additions, the participation percentages have not significantly changed. I don’t know how many women submitted scripts, treatments or pitches for consideration; nor do I know how many men submitted the like. I’m actually not sure that there is useful information to be gleaned from this approach because so many things go into the decision as to which scripts will be approved and then which scripts will be picked up for pilot production. Bad and good is so subjective, and it is one of the reasons that this information may not be entirely useful. We have, however, already discovered that there are more women than men in positions to determine which scripts get sent up the food chain. What are some other influencing factors?
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