The Directors Guild of America reported Thursday that women and non-white members continued to make gains in hiring for television jobs in the 2020-21 season.
found that 38% of TV episodes were directed by women — up from 35% the prior season. The DGA also reported that 34% of episodes were directed by people of color, up from 29% the year before, and more than double the rate in 2014.
The DGA has been tracking diversity in TV for more than a decade. For the first time this year, the union expanded its survey to cover first assistant directors, second assistant directors and unit production managers. That report found racial and ethnic diversity among those jobs lags behind the rates for directors. Among 201 UPMs covered by the survey, 33% were women, and just 11% were people of color.
The lack of representation among those three job categories was particularly acute for Latinos and Asian Americans, with 6% and 4% respectively — well below the state and national shares of the population for each group. “When the pandemic hit, a big question on our minds was whether progress on inclusive hiring would backslide as the production environment changed radically with the implementation of necessary COVID Safety Protocols,” Lesli Linka Glatter, the DGA president, said in a statement. “Despite all the production challenges, the good news is that inclusive hiring continued its upward climb last year — both in overall hiring, as well as hiring of first-time directors.
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