A WGA West study reports 'steady gains' for minority screenwriters in recent years, but warned Hollywood still has far to go before women and people of color can achieve parity and inclusion
"Women and people of color could achieve parity in T.V. employment within the next two years," the guild's inclusion report also reported as gains in employment and screen credits are made.
The WGAW's latest study of industry hiring and screen credits revealed women accounted for 44 percent of the 2,717 TV writing jobs made available during the 2019-20 TV season across all network, cable and streaming platforms, even though women represent 51 percent of the U.S. population. The inclusion survey included first-time data for movie production, which lags behind the TV business in the hiring of writers from underrepresented groups. On the film front, the WGAW found women gained 4 percent of writing jobs to get to 27 percent of all hiring in the last year, and people of color gained 2 percent of hires during the same period to get to in all 20 percent of recent writer jobs.
The WGAW report said the ability of film and TV writers to secure work from studio executives and indie producers is crucial to their future success as screen credits largely determine status in Hollywood. "In 2019, women and people of color both received 19 percent of screen credits compared to 81 percent each for men and white writers," the industry report found.
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