Archives 2015
Are men in romantic movies older than their female co-stars?
"Last week, Oscar-nominated actress Maggie Gyllenhaal was widely quoted as saying that (by Hollywood standards) she is already “too old” to play the on-screen love interest of a 55-year-old man in romantic movies. She’s 37. Following this, I have been asked by a few regular readers to crunch the numbers and look at whether there has historically been an age gap between male and female actors in romantic films." Stephen Follows
The queen bee phenomenon: Why women leaders distance themselves from junior women
The queen bee phenomenon: Why women leaders distance
themselves from junior women by "The Leadership Quarterly"
UK films with public funding hire more women
"Today’s article is an offshoot of two strands of research I’ve been working on over the past few years – gender in the film industry and UK films with public funding. I looked at the percentage of female writers, producers and directors within UK films, focusing on how the female representation changes between films supported by a public body and those that are not." Stephen Follows