How Women are Banding Together to End Hollywood Boys Club in Animation (Charts)

Hollywood’s quest to diversify has largely left out a segment of the industry that is beginning to band together in support of one another: Women and women of color in animation. Animation, like much of Hollywood, has historically been a boys club. Looking at below-the-line positions (roles such as head of story, art directors, production designers, etc.), the gender ratio of males to females across 9 key roles or unit head positions was 8.5 to 1 across 52 of the top animated films from 2014 to 2018, according to a study by the Inclusion Initiative at USC Annenberg. The numbers for women of color are even more disproportionate. For example, only 28% of story editors are women but only 1% are women of color. (See chart below) “It’s really because we don’t think about it,” said Taylor Shaw, founder and CEO of production company Black Women Animate. “Animation is just so behind the scenes. When you put the stats in front of them, people recognize how big of a problem it is, but I think people just talk about it behind closed doors.” Shaw started Black Women Animate after attempting to hire a team of black female animators to work...

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