A new study confirms what many women in TV production already suspect: males continue to outnumber females when it comes to how reality shows are made.
Men make up 58.4% of executive producers, supervising producers, and show creators, while women only make up 41.5%, according to a study commissioned by the Geena Davis Institute, Banijay Entertainment and Everywoman Studios.
Across the United States, U.K., Brazil and France, three in four reality TV creators are men (73.7% compared with 25.7% women).
This gender difference among creators is most pronounced in the U.S. (80.6% men compared with 16.1% women), the study says. The study was produced over three years (2021–2023) in those four countries.
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