MAJOR AGENCIES

We will pay assistants living wages and invest in their long-term goals so that coffee run expertise, ruthlessness, and resentment aren’t the only things they take away from working with us.

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*Verve’s already ahead of the game on this one!

According to the #PayUpHollywood survey, around 70% of assistants surveyed were women, and 78.21% were white, pointing to large gender and racial disparities when compared to the percentage of women and underrepresented women in roles of leadership. One out of 5 respondents said they don’t feel comfortable leaving their desk to go to the bathroom. 72.9% of respondents make between $500-$900 a week after taxes.

AWARD SHOWS

We resolve to watch more movies not made by cis white men, starring cis white men, for cis white men.

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According to a 2015 Nielsen report: “There is a direct correlation between Oscar nominee diversity in major categories and viewership. The more diverse the nominees, the larger the audience, and vice-versa. Given that ABC’s Oscar telecast generates a significant share of the Academy’s annual earnings, it’s crucial that the awards show maintains high ratings.”

MAJOR STUDIOS

We resolve to have equitable hiring at every level of production, including the acquisition and development stage. That way, we won’t be scared to show the receipts and publicize the diversity and inclusivity percentages of our senior leadership.

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We’ll even use the FTW Business software to analyze the diversity of our teams!

The Variety Inclusion Impact report evaluated top leadership across Hollywood’s biggest studios and agencies. The study states that “No major film studio is run by a person of color, and only one, Universal, boasts a female chairman, Donna Langley.”

Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal, Warner Bros., CAA, UTA, and WME all declined to disclose what percentage of senior leadership was diverse and inclusive.

PRODUCTIONS

We will strive to hire people with disabilities and make sure that our productions are fully accessible.

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We will hire people who are over 40, mothers and mothers-to-be, people in the LGBTQ+ community, and veterans. Ageism, sexism, and all other harmful biases are NOT IT.

In a USC Annenberg study of Inequality in 1,200 popular films from 2007 to 2018:

1.6% of all speaking characters were depicted with a disability.

27.5% of characters with disabilities were female and 36.9% were from underrepresented racial groups. The study did not include any stats that show how people with disabilities were involved behind the camera.

Hollywood relies heavily on source material from women over 40. There’s authors like Margaret Atwood, J.K. Rowling, Suzanne Collins, E.L. James or Liane Moriarty. So why aren’t women over 40 hired more often?

Across 4,387 speaking characters in 1,200 popular films from 2007 to 2018, only ONE was trans-identifying and the film the character appeared in was released in 2015.

A Corporate Executive Board study shows 4% higher productivity and 3% lower turnover among veterans.

Hiring managers completely overlooked underrepresented women in production roles and it shows. Across the 300 top films from 2016 – 2018:

0 Directors of Photography

1.4% of Editors

1.5% of Production Designers

1.6% of producers

ARTISTS, MUSIC VIDEO COMMISSIONERS, & LABELS

We will support music video directors by minimizing free work, respecting directors’ time, and facilitating a transparent hiring process, where directors will no longer be “ghosted” about their pitches.

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In a poll conducted by We Direct Music Videos, 92% of music video directors reported that they’ve received a brief on a Friday with a Monday due date. 81% of directors also reported that they’ve had an artist show up on set without reading the video treatment.

AD AGENCIES

We will make a greater effort to diminish workplace “bro” culture that has been characteristic of the advertising world, while improving diversity in senior leadership roles by supporting women in advertising.

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We will refer to databases of women in advertising, like Mara Lecocq’s Where Are the Boss Ladies, during the hiring process.

The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and the She Runs It organization report that although women and men join the advertising industry in equal numbers, women only make up a third of chief marketing officers.

Glassdoor reports that the gender pay gap in marketing also exceeds the average across other industries.