Streaming TV Series Ahead Of Broadcast In Featuring Women In Front Of And Behind Camera, Latest “Boxed In” Study Finds
deadline.comA new report from the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University has found that women made up 50% of major characters on streaming programs and 48% on broadcast TV during 2021-2022, the fourth year in a row that streaming companies have outpaced their broadcast network counterparts in that metric. “Half of the major characters on streaming programs are girls and women, approximating their numbers in the actual population,” said Dr.
Martha Lauzen, executive director of the center. Streaming also topped broadcast percentage-wise in key behind-the-scenes jobs, according to the report, titled Boxed In: Women on Screen and Behind the Scenes on Broadcast and Streaming Television in 2021-22 and released Tuesday.
The study (read it here), in its 25th year, found that 37% of individuals working in key behind-the-scenes roles on streaming programs were women, a gain of four percentage points to a new high, compared with 31% on broadcast.
Those differences grew among certain positions, including executive producers (38%-29%) and directors (29%-18%). Still, in 2021-22, 92% of broadcast and streaming programs had no women directors of photography, 79% had no women had no women directors, 72% had no women editors, 71% had no women creators, and 65% had no women writers, the study said.
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