{"id":108123,"date":"2023-10-08T17:11:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T17:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/08\/six-years-after-metoo-entertainment-employees-believe-hollywood-culture-of-abuse-misconduct-has-improved\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T17:11:06","slug":"six-years-after-metoo-entertainment-employees-believe-hollywood-culture-of-abuse-misconduct-has-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/10\/08\/six-years-after-metoo-entertainment-employees-believe-hollywood-culture-of-abuse-misconduct-has-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"Six years after #MeToo, entertainment employees believe Hollywood culture of abuse, misconduct has improved"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"article-text\">\n                        \n\n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six years after the\u00a0#MeToo\u00a0hashtag took off with the bombshell expos\u00e9s against Harvey Weinstein, a new survey has found that a promising number of employees in the entertainment industry feel progress has been made in Hollywood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WIF, the nonprofit organization formerly known as\u00a0Women In Film, conducted a survey last month where the majority of respondents said the culture in Hollywood has improved, with experiences of abuse and misconduct being reduced by 33.7% compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The survey results, obtained by\u00a0<em>Variety<\/em>, show that 59% of respondents believe that the culture around abuse, harassment and misconduct in Hollywood has improved over the last year. 46.2% of respondents say they or someone they know experienced abuse or misconduct in the past year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile the numbers have improved, results and anonymous anecdotes show that abuse and misconduct continues to be prevalent in our industry,\u201d according to WIF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WIF conducted the survey among 266 respondents this past September. Participants in the survey are current or former screen industry employees with 95.4% of respondents identifying as women, 1.9% as men and 2.7% identify as nonbinary or another gender. Participants included people of color, individuals who identify as trans and individuals who are part of the LGBTQ+ community.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI worked for a company that mainly employed men. My looks, outfits and weight were always a topic of discussion,\u201d one survey participant wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another respondent wrote, \u201cI have experienced everything from discrimination to harassment in nearly every job I have held in the industry as well as witnessed it happen to multiple female friends of mine.\u201d This anonymous individual said that they were fired from their first industry job after asking why their male counterpart was making more money. This person also wrote that they were \u201csexually assaulted on the first set I ever worked on, and was sent illicit photos from talent on a show I was working on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other allegations of workplace mistreatment shared in the survey include male executive producers trying to take writing credits from female writers and then firing them for not agreeing to give up a writing credit on an episode that they wrote, and production telling a woman that she was \u201cnot allowed\u201d to cry on set even though she was being \u201charassed by a male set worker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For people who identify as former entertainment industry workers, nearly half say the reason they left the industry is because of abuse or misconduct.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI strongly feel that #MeToo has done nothing except teach men how to hide their behavior better,\u201d one participant individual shared in the WIF survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It has been six years since the stories on Weinstein broke in the New York Times and the New Yorker in October 2017, opening the floodgates for allegations against Weinstein and others in power who were accused of sexual harassment and abuse. In 2023, accusations against men in power in the entertainment industry continue to be prevalent: Just this week, actress\u00a0Julia Ormond filed a lawsuit, first reported by\u00a0<em>Variety<\/em>, against Weinstein for sexual battery, also suing CAA and Disney for allegedly enabling Weinstein\u2019s behavior; and TV producer\u00a0Bryan Fuller was accused\u00a0of sexual harassment on the set of a docuseries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Established 50 years ago in 1973, WIF works to dismantle gender bias, discrimination and harassment in the entertainment industry.<\/p>\n \n                               <p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>      \n                <!-- Post Tags -->\n                \n\n                         \n                                             \n                    <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years after the\u00a0#MeToo\u00a0hashtag took off with the bombshell expos\u00e9s against Harvey Weinstein, a new survey has found that a promising number of employees in the entertainment industry feel progress has been made in Hollywood. 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