Despite box office successes, women are a minority in key roles in cinema, says study

Directed by Greta Gerwig, BarbieIt was a huge box office success. Past Livesin Celine Song, Priscilla, in Sofia Coppola, It is Saltburn, in Emerald Fennell, followed the doll film, receiving positive reviews. The feature films of Beyonce It is Taylor Swift also added to the relatively successful year for women in film.

New research from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University in the United States finds that, although women have directed critical and box office successes in the last year, the situation in the film industry is still not of equity (via variety).

Among the 250 highest-grossing films of 2023, only 16% were directed by women, compared to 18% in 2022. Women occupied 22% of the positions of directors, screenwriters, producers, executive producers, editors and directors of photography in them. 250 cinematographic works. More than 75% of productions hired 10 or more men to fill key roles behind the camera, while 4% employed 10 or more women in those roles.

In features directed by women, the study shows that they represented 61% of screenwriters, 35% of editors, 10% of cinematographers and 26% of composers. When a man was in charge, the picture changed to 9% screenwriters, 18% editors, 7% cinematographers and 11% composers.