Study Shows How Gender Inequality Dominates Hollywood

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Here are some numbers for you: There are 1,438 directors, writers, and producers behind the 100 top-grossing films of 2016. The gender breakdown? About 82 percent male, 18 percent female.

That’s a finding published by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School, which analyzed the 900 top grossing movies over the past nine years to identify who is being represented in Hollywood, both on and off the screen.

It found that of the speaking characters in the top 100 movies of 2016, just 31 percent were women, and non-white groups accounted for just 29 percent. And of all the the 900 movies in the past nine years, there were just 34 unique female directors.

Gillian Robespierre, co-writer and director of the films "Obvious Child" and "Landline," discusses the challenges of breaking it into Hollywood. Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear the full conversation. 

This segment is hosted by Todd Zwillich.