Gender inequality still exists in the world of cinema. This women just represented 37% Compared to the total number of professionals in the industry 63% of men throughout 2022. costume design (with 80% women), makeup and hairdressing (73%), artistic direction (63%) and production management (55%).
This information was obtained from the data presented in the 2022 annual report. society Women Filmmakers and Audiovisual Media (TOP) at the IV Congress. As the study is an annual compilation of Spanish feature films, it analyzed the numbers of nominees submitted to the Goya Awards as an example of productions and positions to be reviewed.
masculine occupations
Most of the work done in the film industry still has more of a male presence. women only represent 36% of responsible professionals assembly And special effectsA 28% they care producingHE scenario And soundA 24% responsible addressA twenty one% between music compositionA little 19% between photo direction From the movies.
The data is also vertical separation according to the level of decision making regarding the content and final product of the feature film. Occupational groups with the highest representation of women are in the medium and low authority scales and decrease significantly as they rise to more powerful positions.
In this sense, management positions created by 27% women one in front of 72% of men and technical-artistic has 32% female representation compared to 68% male representation. Likewise, women represent 55%, 75% and 36% of organizational occupations that focus on tech-aesthetics and tech-professionals, respectively. By industry, the forms in which women are least represented animation (twenty one%), followed by documentaries (33%) And fiction (39%).
economic vacuum
Economic gender gap, -41%a figure referring to feature films directed by women handle lower quantities to those of similar partners. And feature films directed by women, lower cost projects.
They wanted to emphasize from CIMA that support measures to support women in granting state aid “work and support greater implementation of films with writers and techniques”. The difference in the amounts obtained by some feature films and others reflects an economic gender gap of only -1%. However, titles led by women tend to be more on the lines of: help where quantities are fateful they are small.
financial aid
Regarding subsidies for the production or development of feature films promoted from Autonomous Communities, Catalonia in the lead with 51% your help distributed to films directed by women. A fair distribution also supported by regions such as Extremadura (50%) and Euskadi (44%).
As for the financing available to the general television channels, only 34% of feature films It was managed by women who received support from the audio-visual sector. This data consists almost entirely of RTVETogether 39% the number of films with female leads of all films that he co-produced. on his behalf Atresmedia Cinema just write one 9% And Telecinco Cinema a terrible sign 0%.