Gender Inequality In The Film Industry

Women and film, they have being making movies since the beginning of filmmaking and they have always being suppressed by the film industry. Women never really managed to get the space and respect that they deserve with film. From 1896 when the first women made a movie to now 2016, 120 years later not a lot has changed in the industry. They are still not being employed as much as men, nor are they making the same amount of money as men and they are defiantly not getting recognizing by the awards. Men are always getting everything in the film industry, however women have being disrespected and ignored by the industry since they started making movies. The inequality in the film industry always has been absurd. Women have been making movie since the silent era, Alice Guy-Blaché was a french film director; she was the first female known to make a movie. She worked in more than 700 productions in France and in the United States, however barely anyone has ever heard of her or even know of her. Contrary to Georges Méliès, who was also a french filmmaker who started making movies at the same time that Guy-Blaché did and he’s extremely famous ; everyone who knows anything about cinema has heard of him. The only difference between him and Alice Guy-Blaché is that he was a man and she was a woman. That was enough to make one be …show more content…
They are many stories about women being victims of sexism in the industry. For an example, men refusing to follow instructions given by women and asking to only be addressed by a man, a man not so important in the crew, instead of listening to the female director ; men always asking the female director to bring them coffee because they thought they were just an assistant not the director. The stories go on, many cases of disrespect towards women happening in sets are way too