'This year, for the first time since the age of seven, I am not going to watch the Oscars. I would encourage you to join me.'
Forbes
Two years have passed now. The studios and networks have plastered our eyes with press releases touting how they’ve fixed their woman problem, but those announcements. As I discovered conducting hundreds of interviews for an upcoming book, sexual harassment and assault continues rampant.
From 1945 to 1979, women were hired to direct one half of one percent of studio films. After a brief and modest uptick in the eighties, thanks to a lawsuit by a group of six brave female directors for discriminatory hiring practices, that percentage leveled off and now limply wiggles year-to-year: 4 percent in 1990, 7 percent in 2010, 4 percent in 2016, 8 percent in 2017 and a truly depressing 4 percent in 2018.
Hollywood, despite applauding itself as a bastion of liberal thinking, has a significant distance to travel before it can truly be considered anything like progressive. And nowhere is that backward-looking, entrenched, white, male monolithic perspective so blazingly and unabashedly on display as it is at the Oscars.
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