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Women In Leading Film Roles Declined In 2023, USC Annenberg Inclusion Study Finds
Only 30% of leading movie roles were portrayed by women or girls in 2023, a trend extended to other underrepresented groups in the industry.
A new study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative has found that women and girls made up just 30% of the leading film roles in the top-major motion pictures of 2023, representing a 14 percentage point drop from the year before. The trend extended to women and other underrepresented groups both in front of and behind the camera, revealing an overall stagnation in inclusion efforts in the movie industry. U.S. state legislatures have taken aim against DEI, and the entertainment industry seems either too apathetic or too fearful to use the tools in their arsenal to reflect back to its consumers the world that exists rather than a skewed representation of the population.”
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