A survey from the Sundance Institute and Women in Film found women are far more likely to work in independent film than on mainstream studio movies.
That represented a decline of two percentage points from the year before.Īnd then there’s qualitative data. The same institution released another recent report that found women made up only 7 percent of all directors working on the 250 highest-grossing domestic releases in 2016. Hollywood’s gender issue is further complicated, though, when it comes to directors. Still, that’s far from reflecting a demographic that makes up more than half of the population. The study found that females made up 29% of protagonists in the 100 highest-grossing films of 2016, a 7% rise from 2015 and recent historical high.
There has been some progress toward making female protagonists more visible, according to a recent report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University. As conversation surrounding gender equality and equity in Hollywood reaches a fever pitch, the fact that these two films are leading the box office at the midway point hammer home a point that has been made before, but should be made again - female-led and centered films don’t just have a place in the marketplace, they’re key to the profit-making equation. It’s also the second largest earner of 2017 behind another film centered on a female protagonist, “ Beauty and the Beast” ($504 million domestic).
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