Anita Hill’s Survey Finds Less Than Half of Industry Employees Believe Diversity and Inclusion Are Priorities in Hollywood

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Nearly three decades ago, Anita Hill took a stand against harassment when, during his Senate confirmation, she publicly accused Justice Clarence Thomas, who is now the most senior member of the U.S…

The findings highlight the staggering differences in the perceptions and experiences of bias and inclusion between men, women and underrepresented groups — and the results strongly indicate the need for Hollywood to urgently increase its diversity efforts, with less than half of survey participants believing that diversity and inclusion are core values in Hollywood.

Digging deeper, women of color were more likely to experience bias than white women with multi-racial and Black women describing that they have been denied opportunities that were given to others. Individuals with disabilities were twice as likely to be treated unfairly, in comparison to those without a disability.

“There is still very little effort to hire diverse people,” an anonymous participant shared in the survey. “People hire who they’ve worked with before and don’t often give a chance or reach out to give a leg up to diverse people or new people.” “Hollywood has an insidious problem with both sexual harassment and discrimination,” another anonymous participant wrote in the survey. “Racial discrimination and racist behaviors and beliefs are ingrained in the business, from casting on down. Most white writers will never identify race in scripts, save for non-white characters. The assumption becomes every character is white unless otherwise noted.

 

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