LOS ANGELES (AP) – Women and minorities are largely shut out of the ranks of TV series directors in a stubbornly unchanged pattern of hiring, according to a Hollywood guild study released Wednesday.
The Directors Guild of America report said that employers have made no significant improvement in diversity among TV directors in the last four years.
According to the study, white males directed the vast majority of the more than 3,500 cable, broadcast and high-budget online episodes made for the 2013-14 season.
In a statement, Directors Guild President Paris Barclay said it can be “shockingly difficult” to persuade those who control industry hiring to make even small improvements.
“This should matter to all of us, as a culture, as an industry and as directors,” Barclay said, calling on studios, networks, production companies and individual producers to stop making excuses and provide “true equal opportunity.”