UK TV Industry Sees Alarming Dip In Women In Senior Roles Since Pandemic

The proportion of women in senior roles in UK TV has dipped alarmingly since the Covid-19 pandemic, with women making up just a quarter of writers and one third of directors during the past year.

In eyebrow-raising stats unveiled in diversity data monitor Diamond’s latest report, representation of women in senior roles was shown to have dropped every year for the past four years to 45.4%, with the largest fall coming during the main pandemic year while male representation remained pretty stable.

Coming at a time when scribes are striking across the U.S. in a bid for better conditions, the data showed that less than one third of writers last year were female, with this figure even lower – 25.3% – for directors. In terms of senior roles, women were only over-represented in heads of production and commissioning editor posts.

In key genres such as drama and children’s, women held just 45.1% and 35.6% of roles respectively for the year to July 2022, when the data was submitted. For the first time, there were more than 1 million total UK TV contributions to Diamond last year, with shows on the

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