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Statistics referenced in the video:
Women in film comprise only 30% of speaking characters and 12% of protagonists. [Source: Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, 2015]
In prime-time TV, women make up only 14% of executives and 16% of characters with STEM careers. [Source: Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media]
58% of females characters are identified by the roles they have in their personal, lives such as wives or mothers. [Source: Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, 2015]
Female newsroom Staff: 36% [source: women’s media center, 2014]
Women in Congress – 20% [source: Center for American Women in Politics, 2015]
Female aircraft Pilots and Engineers: 7.2% [Department of Labor, 2014]
Female fortune 500 CEOs: 5% [source: PEW Research Center, 2014]
Top- Grossing Film teams – 16% are women [source: women’s media center, 2014]
Top Grossing Directors – 9% are women [source: Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University, 2015]
Female founded startups – 18% are women [source: CrunchBase, 2015]
Cents on a white man’s dollar:
White women: 78
Black women: 64
Hispanic women: 54
[Source: U.S. Current Population Survey and the National Committee on Pay Equity; also Bureau of Labor Statistics: Weekly and Hourly Earnings Data from the Current Population Survey.]