#GAReads | Despite a History-Making Oscars, Women's Underrepresentation Behind the Camera Persists
“Despite a History-Making Oscars, Women's Underrepresentation Behind the Camera Persists”:
As the 2021 Oscars ceremony on Sunday, April 25, celebrated a year of film unlike any other, a recent report from the Women’s Media Center sheds light on progress as well as continued gender disparities in non-acting nominations. In total, the report shares, only 32 percent of the 205 total non-acting nominations—for critical roles such as writing, editing, directing and producing—included women, a two percentage point increase from the year prior.