The lack of female writers in British film and TV is producing a “self-sustaining loop” that perpetuates the gender imbalance, it has been claimed, after a study revealed women write 28% of TV episodes and make up 16% of film screenwriters.
• 16% of all writers credited on at least one UK feature film between 2005-16 were female (526 out of 3,310 writers).
The Band of Gold screenwriter Kay Mellor said the current dearth of female signature writers for British TV was “criminal”.
• 28% of all UK TV episodes between 2001-16 were predominantly female-written.