RESEARCH
2020 Hollywood Diversity Report: A Different Story Behind the Scenes
Film roles were more plentiful for women and people of color in 2018 and 2019, but underrepresentation remains for writers and executives. The 2020 Hollywood Diversity Report includes a workplace analysis of 11 major and mid-major studios.
Download Part I (Film) of the Diversity Report HERE.
Download Part II (Television) of the Diversity Report HERE.
Inclusion in the Director’s Chair: Analysis of Director Gender & Race/Ethnicity Across 1300 Top Films from 2007 to 2019
This revealing study was published in January 2020 by the USC Annenberg Institute and authored by Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Marc Choueiti, Kevin Yao, Hannah Clark & Dr. Katherine Pieper.
Download the full study HERE.
Inclusion or Invisibility? Comprehensive Annenberg Report on Diversity in Entertainment
In 2016, The Institute for Diversity, Empowerment at Annenberg (IDEA), part of USC Annenberg, published a detailed investigation by Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Marc Choueiti, & Dr. Katherine Pieper to quantify patterns around the lack of media representation of females and people of color in film.
Read the full report HERE.
The Women Missing from the Silver Screen and the Technology Used to Find Them
A Geena Davis Institute on Gender and Media Executive Report by Stacy L. Smith, PhD, Marc Choueiti, Ashley Prescott and Katherine Pieper, offers hard data on gender disparities in film and explores how characters on screen might affect the roles we play in society.
Read and watch a thought-provoking, interactive presentation of the findings HERE.
Gender Bias Without Borders: An Investigation of Female Characters in Popular Films Across 11 Countries
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, USC Annenberg, The Rockefeller Foundation and the United Nations collaborated on this global study in 2012. Authors Dr. Stacy L. Smith, Marc Choueiti and Dr. Katherine Pieper research the visibility and nature of female depictions in films, analyzing gender roles in popular films across Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United Kingdom. Their findings reveal that the percentage of female speaking characters in top-grossing movies has not meaningfully changed in roughly a half of a century. Further, women are often stereotyped and sexualized when they are depicted in popular content.
Download a comprehensive report based on the study HERE.
Gender Roles and Occupations: A Look at Character Attributes and Job-Related Aspirations in Film and Television
The authors Stacy L. Smith, Ph.D. and Marc Choueiti examine the job occupations of men and women on screen in PG and PG-13 prime-time programs, including drama, reality shows, comedy, children's series, news magazines and children's TV shows.
Download the Executive Report by the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media HERE.
Gender Disparity On Screen and Behind the Camera in Family Films
In this July 2017 study from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, the authors examine gender portrayals in a total of 122 family films rated G, PG, or PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America.
Download the full Executive Report HERE.
White Paper on Gender Inequality in Film and Television
Participants of the July 2017 Women’s Media Summit prioritized seven action items in the national movement to achieve gender equity in entertainment media.
Download the White Paper by the Women’s Media Action Coalition HERE.
Gender Parity: The View From Here
Entitled ‘Gender Parity: The View From Here’, the 2019 Annual Report of Women In Film, an organization which advocates for and advances the careers of women working in the screen industries, shows there is still much work to be done to achieve equal representation.
Download the annual report HERE.
It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World: Portrayals of Female Characters in the Top Grossing Films of 2019
Dr. Martha M. Lauzen from The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, compiled this comprehensive report on how female characters are portrayed in blockbuster movies.
Download the full report HERE.
The Reel Truth: Women Aren’t Seen or Heard
The Geena Davis Inclusion Quotient (or GD-IQ), automates painstaking data-collection processes that researchers use to study representation. An AI technology-using digital tool that is able to analyze a script's text and evaluate the number of male and female characters and if the breakdown is representative of the actual population. The tool, which was developed at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, can also be used to evaluate how many characters are LGBTQ+, are people of color, have disabilities as well as other groups frequently underrepresented in media.
The GD-IQ was used to not only analyze gender representation but also screen time and speaking time in the top 100 grossing films of 2014 and 2015. Read the results in the full report, available to download HERE.
The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind-the-Scenes Employment of Women on the Top 100, 250, and 500 Films of 2019
A report on the hiring policies of film productions from The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University. Complied by Martha M. Lauzen, Ph.D.
Download the full report HERE.