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The data behind Hollywood's sexism

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Stacy Smith |

TEDWomen 2016

• October 2016

Where are all the women and girls in film? Social scientist Stacy Smith analyzes how the media underrepresents and portrays women -- and the potentially destructive effects those portrayals have on viewers. She shares hard data behind gender bias in Hollywood, where on-screen males outnumber females three to one (and behind-the-camera workers fare even worse.)

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Where are all the women and girls in film? Social scientist Stacy Smith analyzes how the media underrepresents and portrays women -- and the potentially destructive effects those portrayals have on viewers. She shares hard data behind gender bias in Hollywood, where on-screen males outnumber females three to one (and behind-the-camera workers fare even worse.)

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Stacy Smith shows how Hollywood’s homogenous (and overwhelmingly male) culture systematically excludes women and minorities.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

Read our curation guidelines.

Donate to the Donate to the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative to fund ongoing research and solutions to inequality in entertainment.

Learn more about how you can use Dr. Stacy L. Smith's solutions to end the epidemic of invisibility in entertainment.

Stacy Smith: The data behind Hollywood's sexism | TED Talk