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Category Archives: women

Do the Women Have Names?

The Bechdel Test for women in movies is simply described in the video.  I don’t think we have the same problem in television series (just sometimes in story rooms).  Am I wrong?

Update on Women Writing in LA

Back in March I posted a piece about women screenwriters in LA mostly cribbed from Where Have All the Women Writers Gone? a post by Nealy Swanson in Research Wrap. As Nealy pointed out there aren’t a lot of writers on staff at the top rated US series.
Suddenly this weekend, the post got a […]

State of Women Writers in LA

Check out Where Have All the Women Gone? Long Time Passing in The Research Wrap Blog.  Pilot season has been especially unkind to women writers this year.  And the staffing situation isn’t much better.  Take at look at this chart included in the post:

What about cable?
Perhaps, I thought, cable would be a more receptive arena […]