Talk at German Film Union ver.di FilmUnion: Gender Equality & Film Industry
On June 11 the German union ver.di FilmUnion in Berlin held a talk on Gender Equality in the Film Industry (in German). I was asked to present some basic facts on the situation of women and men in the film and television industry behind and in front of the camera. These were my preliminary questions:
- Who is working in which division?
- Who is employed in which film?
- Who is paid how much money?
These are the figures from my presentation.
We can clearly see for most film departments and groups of films (TV or cinema) that the share of female filmmakers actually working is less than their share within the department. The little data there is on wages and pay within the industry point to another disadvantage for women. So there is still a lot to be done by unions.
Following the galery you will find the original texts on SchspIN from which I took the figures.
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- 1.839 filmmakers, 35 % women.
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- 2.593 filmmakers, 38 % women.
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- 3.191 filmmakers, 10 % women.
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- 2.557 filmmakers, 74 % women.
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- 1.919 filmmakers, 23 % women.
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- 10.067 filmmakers, 51 % women.
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- Absolute Numbers of Members for 18 Filmmakers’ Associations (Set Prod., and Costume Des. are one assoc.)
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- Share of Women and Men [%] among the Members.
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- Ratio Share of Women for the Boards to Share of Women for the Members. A value of 1 indicates equal shares.
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- The figures for 2012 show that all top grossing films were edited by men. Of course women edit films as well, in all other three groups the female editors were around 60 %. Also worth noting is the high share of camerawomen for the TV groups
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- Comparing all 4 film groups for 2013 distinct differences occur for most departments. The smallest differences can be found in the make-up dept: share of women between 83 and 91 %.
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- First role on the cast sheet. 3 x 20 and 1 x 17 films.
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- Male roles per 1 female role, for each group.
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- Male roles per 1 female role, for each group.
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- Male roles per 1 female role, for all cinema and for all TV films by female / male directors respectively.
These are some of the blog texts the figures were taken from:
- Filmcrafts: Some with Women, Some with Men?
- Filmmakers’ Unions: Who is in Charge? Part 1 / 3
- Filmmakers’ Unions and Gender: DIRECTING. Part 2 / 3
- Filmmakers’ Unions and Gender: Acting. Part 3 / 3
- Give me Art, Give me Money 2013: Behind the Camera
- Give me Art, Give me Money 2013: In Front of the Camera
- The Top 100 German Films 2014
- Age: A Picture is worth a Thousand Words