Only one fifth of UK film workers were female in 2015, study finds

The study, titled Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, found that women were most prominent in producer roles, at 27%, but concluded that the “vast majority of key production personnel in the UK film industry are still men”.

Women made up just a fifth of production personnel working on UK films in 2015, according to a new study.

Directors UK, the leading organisation for UK film directors, subsequently called for half of all public funding to go to female-led projects by 2020, in order to combat systemic sexism.