Unequal Opportunities

Author:

Banks Miranda J.

Abstract

This article examines the precarity of labor for women working in US broadcast television during the long 1970s, focusing on interventions by government agencies, trade unions, and individual writers and producers, with a particular focus on the Writers Guild of America (WGA) 1974 Women's Committee Report, the first major statistical survey to track the representation of women as creatives within American television. This article puts qualitative and quantitative data in direct conversation: where one captures the nuances of personal experience and the other highlights the extent of inequality, together they help fill gaps in understanding the long history of struggles for equity in media production.

Publisher

University of California Press

Subject

History,Gender Studies

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1. Dave O'Brien, Kim Allen, Sam Friedman, and Anamik Saha, “Producing and Consuming Inequality: A Cultural Sociology of the Cultural Industries,” Cultural Sociology 11, no. 3 (2017): 271–82.

2. The most recent studies of television from these centers include Martha M. Lauzen, “Boxed in 2016–17: Women on Screen and Behind the Scenes in Television,” Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, San Diego State University, September 2017, https://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/2016-17_Boxed_In_Report.pdf; Darnell Hunt, Ana-Christina Ramón, Michael Tran, Amberia Sargent, and Vanessa Díaz, “2017 Hollywood Diversity Report: Setting the Record Straight,” UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, 2017, https://bunchecenter.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/82/2017/04/2017-Hollywood-Diversity-Report-2-21-17.pdf; Stacy L. Smith, Marc Choueiti, and Katherine Pieper, “Inclusion or Invisibility? Comprehensive Annenberg Report on Diversity in Entertainment,” Institute for Diversity and Empowerment at Annenberg (IDEA), USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, https://annenberg.usc.edu/sites/default/files/CARDReport_FINAL.pdf.

3. See Maya Montañez Smukler's forthcoming Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2018).

4. ACTT, Patterns of Discrimination against Women in the Film and Television Industries (London: ACTT, 1975).

5. “Between 1949 and 1979, according to the Committee's findings, 7,332 feature films were made and released by major distributors. Fourteen—0.19%—were directed by women.” Maya Montañez Smukler, “Liberating Hollywood: Thirty Years of Women Directors,” CSW Update Newsletter, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, 2011, available at https://escholarship.org/content/qt3pd5t9m6/qt3pd5t9m6.pdf.

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