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Television: behind the camera, women occupy less than 40% of key positions

2021-09-16T17:03:41.871Z


A study by Ina, in partnership with the association For women in the media, analyzed the composition of the teams of 440 series and


Women occupied "on average 38% of key positions" in the creation and production of French fictions broadcast in the evening in 2019, according to a study by Ina unveiled this Thursday in partnership with the association For women in the media.

Presented on the occasion of the La Rochelle fiction festival, the study examines the composition of the teams of some 440 series and TV films broadcast in 2019 on TF1, France 2, France 3, M 6, Canal +, Arte and France 5 .

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Unsurprisingly, women are "under-represented in technical and power positions.

», Notes Ina, which was interested in 14 functions from creation to production. The premier category, that of directors, is overwhelmingly occupied (83%) by men. Men also represent 65% of the authors of the original idea for films and series, 63% of chief editors and 72% of set designers and production managers. "The inequality is even more flagrant for so-called technical professions", chief operators and sound engineers being men in more than nine out of ten cases (92% and 96% respectively).

The finding is more balanced among producers and performers (41% women), and among screenwriters and adapters "with 47% women".

But this quasi-parity covers another form of inequality, women being "very often co-authors of the scenarios, much more regularly than their male counterparts".

Thus, only 22% of unique authors are women, "while the proportion of co-authors climbs to 43%".

"Real problem of discrimination in hiring"

"We trust women alone," laments Laurence Bachman, producer and co-president of the association For women in the media.

Exception which "confirms the rule", the post of script (assistant of the director and "memory of the shooting") "remains predominantly female", at 98%.

These "edifying" results are not a revelation, notes Bachman.

But "for women to count, they must be counted", adds the one who pleads with broadcasters for the establishment of "achievable quotas", "temporary and progressive", such as for example a first level of 30% of female directors, objective already targeted by France Télévisions.

Schools in the sector are making efforts in terms of parity, but "there is a real problem of discrimination in hiring", believes Agnès Chauveau, Deputy Director General of Ina.

However, recruiting more women would make it possible, according to her, to better represent them in fictions or to "solve the problems of harassment on the set".

Source: leparis

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