#GoodRead | Study: More Women TV Creators and EPs Mean More Women Leads, Writers, Directors, Editors

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"Study: More Women TV Creators and EPs Mean More Women Leads, Writers, Directors, Editors":

If you want more women in TV, you gotta start at the top. 

That's the main conclusion reached by a new study looking at the employment figures of who writes, produces and appears on television. Having at least one woman creator or EP correlated with a higher percentage of major female characters, as well as "substantially" more women writers, directors and editors compared to similar programs with no female creatives among the executive ranks. 

Read Inkoo Kang's full article at Indiewire's Women and Hollywood here…