Why Hollywood doesn’t care about hiring women and minority directors?

This is a remarkable decoding of Hollywood jargon, When it comes to hiring women and minority directors on prime-time television episodes, cable channels and broadcast networks have made little progress.

Apparently Hollywood doesn’t like hiring women or minority directors, and it’s also not surprising. Sadly in this day and age, the trend continues, even on television and cable channels.

Behind the cameras there’s still little room for women and minority directors.

A new study released by the Directors Guild of America analyzed more than 3,500 episodes produced in the 2013-14 network television season from more than 220 scripted series.

It’s worth noting that Caucasian males directed 69% of all episodes, while the percentage of minority males directors directed 2% of all episodes. Overall, white males directed seven out of every 10 episodes.

Female directors, meanwhile, made no headway: Caucasian females directed 12% of all episodes, while minority females directed just 2% of all episodes.

The increase in episodes directed by minority males was attributable entirely to a single director, Tyler Perry, rather than a reflection of broad improvement in diversity hiring.

Comparing figures for 2013-2014 with figures from 2012-2013, this year’s report shows that:

1. The percentage of episodes directed by Caucasian males decreased from 72% to 69%;
2. The percentage of episodes directed by minority males increased from 14% to 17%;
3. The percentage of episodes directed by Caucasian females remained static at 12%; and
4. The percentage of episodes directed by minority females remained static at 2%.

Below are the shows with the worst records of hiring women and minority directors for the 2013-2014 television season. Shows that are BOLDED also appeared on the DGA’s “Worst Of” lists last year:

SHOWS THAT HIRED WOMEN OR MINORITY DIRECTORS FOR FEWER THAN 15% OF EPISODES (SOME OF THESE SHOWS DIDN’T HIRE A SINGLE WOMAN OR MINORITY ALL SEASON):

“Unfortunately, it can be shockingly difficult to convince the people who control hiring to make even small improvements to their hiring practices,” DGA president Paris Barclay said.

“But the end result is something worth fighting for. This should matter to all of us, as a culture, as an industry, and as directors. People often say, ‘everybody is responsible for diversity,’ but in the end, that often means that nobody takes responsibility. It’s time for the people who make the hiring decisions – be they studios, networks, production companies, or individual producers – to stop making excuses, stop passing the buck, and start living up to the country’s promise and possibility by providing true equal opportunity.”