{"id":6709,"date":"2015-07-26T20:36:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T00:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2023-05-09T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T22:37:29","slug":"where-are-all-the-female-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/where-are-all-the-female-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are all the female directors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently made a list of 40 directors worth keeping an eye on. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/directors-worth-keeping-an-eye-on-part-4\/\">last part<\/a>. Guess how many of those directors were female? None. Is it because I&#8217;m biased against females? I don&#8217;t think so. Is it because in the movie industry, at least some parts, females are routinely treated as second class citizens? I think so.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some evidence from Variety:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/news\/female-directors-study-sundance-institute-women-in-film-1201477330\/\">Study: Female Directors Face Strong Bias in Landing Studio Films<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of female directors from Metacritic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/feature\/best-women-film-directors-and-movies\">Ranked: The Best Women Film Directors (and Their Films)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently made a list of 40 directors worth keeping an eye on. Here&#8217;s the last part. Guess how many of those directors were female? None. Is it because I&#8217;m biased against females? I don&#8217;t think so. Is it because in the movie industry, at least some parts, females are routinely treated as second class [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[86,6,164],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-directors","tag-movie","tag-sexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6719,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions\/6719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}