In India's $25.47 billion movie business, men outnumber women in Bollywood film crews by five to two, research by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences shows.
India's film industry is the world's most prolific, churning out approximately 2,000 films each year. Photo: AFP
Besides the dearth of bathrooms, she said female staff had to contend with a lack of childcare facilities, lower pay and late-night shifts with no thought given to their personal safety - problems film industry trade unions hav e failed to resolve. "It's a safe space to discuss specific concerns which practicing women face. That is going to be needed until many things get discussed in the open," Fathima told the Thomson Reuters Foundaton.In India's 2.1 trillion rupee movie business, men outnumber women in Bollywood film crews by five to two, according to research by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences . In Hollywood, the ratio is similar, with about a third of key behind-the-scenes crew jobs occupied by women.
Women only occupy about 10 percent of senior management roles on set, found a 2022 industry report by media consulting group Ormax Media and streaming platform Amazon Prime Video. In Bollywood, said Sreedhar, that may be because women have not benefited equally from the gains of collective bargaining power -- from securing wage hikes and reasonable working hours to advocating for safe workplace environments.
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