Show & Content Creators
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USA Today publishes an annual list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment. They include celebrities and top execs, showrunners and creators, actresses, comedians and singers: USA Today’s most recent list is 2019.
The Hollywood Reporter compiles an annual list of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment. Here’s the 2021 List:
The Hollywood Reporter in its pre-pandemic 2018 list, included overview discussions about women in the industry.
Women in Entertainment Power 100 in 2018, identifies “entertainment’s unstoppable female forces” by “delving into 2018’s box office and ratings hits, hot deals and industry milestones … to identify the key women driving those wins and disruptions in C-suites, on backlots, in writers’ rooms and everywhere power operates in Hollywood.”
THR divides their list into The Makers, the Chiefs, the Execs, the Reps, The Stars, Industry Stewards, and Power Squad.
In THR interview with three tops Reps, this exchange is telling:
THR: What's changed with men in Hollywood this year …
Lorrie Bartlett: "Attitude."
THR: … and what hasn't changed at all
Lorrie Bartlett: "Inclusion. The numbers don't lie. Thank you, Dr. Stacy Smith!"
Toni Howard: "Very few women really run things. There's way more women running departments, but the number one spot, you couldn't name five women who are in the number one spot in this industry or in most professions."
Jessica Lacy: "Pay equality is still lagging helplessly behind."
What will it take for women to get into the Power Percentage in Show & Content Creators?