The slow progress of equality in the Spanish audiovisual sector (IMAGE)
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The Observatory of Media Content and Platforms of the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, led by professor Jéssica Izquierdo Castillo, has coordinated a research project that addresses the situation of women in the streaming industry, with an analysis covering the period between 2015 and 2022. The conclusions of this study have confirmed that gender inequalities also exist in the audiovisual market.
The study focused on analysing the content available on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video, revealing, among other data, that only 35% of the content available is made up of women, while men occupy approximately two thirds of the space investigated. Likewise, the Observatory has also verified the gender disparity through figures with examples such as 81% of directors in the audiovisual field compared to 19% of women in that role, as well as the modest 7.1% of female directors of photography; the presence in Spain of more female directors (22%) in the fiction genre (19.3%) than in streaming documentaries (18.6%) or that men still account for 68.6% of the total number of workers in the documentary genre.
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Universitat Jaume I of Castellón
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