Hollywood’s (Still) Embarrassing Gender Gap

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Hollywood has a reputation for being a fairly progressive industry, but when it comes to gender equality, there is still plenty of work to do. Matt is joined by CNBC's senior media & tech correspondent Julia Boorstin to talk about her new book, ‘When Women Lead,’ and discuss the lingering gender gap in Hollywood and lack of female CEOs in entertainment and media industries, why women are particularly adept to lead companies, and what has changed since the #MeToo movement. Email us comments, questions, or ideas at [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Julia Boorstin Producer: Craig Horlbeck Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Would you bet a few thousand dollars that you could sink an eight-foot putt?
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0:10.0	If you bet $2 million, could you bet it all on one football game?
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0:24.4	listen to Gamblers Season 2 on Spotify
0:26.5	or wherever you get your podcast.
0:31.5	It is Wednesday, September 28th.
0:34.7	Hollywood has a reputation for being a pretty progressive place. Stars and producers
0:39.4	are often out there advocating for change. Maybe you've seen it on award shows. I know I have.
0:44.6	But when it comes to gender equality in Hollywood, the numbers are not good. San Diego State
0:50.6	does a survey every year on the percentage of women working off camera in movies.
0:54.6	It was 17% in 1988 and 25% in 2021, an increase of just eight percentage points in all those years.
1:05.9	The percentages of women directors in the top 100 U.S. films dropped to 12% in 2021, according to the celluloid ceiling.
1:15.2	In executive suites, the numbers are probably a little better. They don't keep exact tallies.
1:20.6	And the industry has come a long way from the 1980s when Sherry Lansing became the first woman to run a major studio at Paramount.
1:26.6	But still, there are zero women
1:29.8	currently in the CEO or chairman job of any of the big media or tech companies. Zero.
1:37.8	Julia Borsden would know this because she interviews all the CEOs for CNBC. She's the senior
1:43.1	media and tech correspondent for the network. She
1:45.5	started her career at Fortune. She wrote a great new book called When Women Lead. It's out
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