GEP Analysis: Assessing, understanding, and modelling the impact of gender equity policies (GEP) in the film industry

电影行业在国际上表现出明显的性别不平等：女性在劳动力中的代表性不足；(2)获得较少的工资和其他奖励；(3)在创造、管理和财务方面的机会少于男性；(4)遭受性骚扰和欺凌。这种情况显然对个别妇女的就业和事业造成了问题。但它也限制了电影的质量和本质，限制了观众可以获得的故事讲述和屏幕体验，限制了电影行业企业可以利用的机会和资源。因此，改善电影行业的性别平等对女性工作者、女性观众、女性企业和女性社会都很重要。当然，在过去的三十年里，有许多举措试图改善国际电影行业的性别平等。但这些举措以及政府和行业利益相关者的监管干预只产生了微乎其微的变化。在一些司法管辖区，性别平等措施实际上恶化了。因此，我们需要在以下方面做出重大改变：(1)我们对性别不平等原因的理解；(2)制定、设计、实施和评估旨在促进国际电影行业性别平等的政策和项目。GEP分析将提供该阶跃变化。GEP分析在方法和概念上有了重要的改变。以前，研究和实践主要侧重于赋予妇女个人权力。全球经济政策分析将转而关注行业规范、结构和实践：在电影行业的组织、生产的组织方式和人们的日常行为中，是什么限制了性别平等？有了这一重要的观点转变，全球经济展望分析将-建立新的更好的数据库，使我们能够以新的方式分析妇女参与电影工业的情况；更全面地，在各国之间，与政策干预和国家经济数据等有关-分析以前的政策干预是如何设计的，以及它们是如何成功的，基于与行业利益相关者的访谈，统计分析，网络分析；-根据这些新数据，对不同政策选择可能产生的性别平等结果进行建模。-进行“什么是有效的”分析，并将这些发现与国际电影行业利益相关者联系起来。在此过程中，全球性别平等分析将帮助电影业选择更有效的性别平等政策，改善性别平等，使妇女、创意产出、观众和企业受益。GEP分析还将实现一些方法和概念上的创新，这将有助于学术界在未来提供更好的研究和政策建议。GEP分析将由加拿大、德国和英国领先的屏幕行业研究人员组成的团队进行。它将重点关注这些国家的电影产业，以及这些电影产业的直接国际背景，最值得注意的是欧洲和加拿大的欧洲影像足迹。

The film industries internationally exhibit marked gender inequality: women (1) are under-represented in the workforce; (2)receive less pay and other rewards, (3) have fewer creative, managerial and financial opportunities than men; and (4) aresubjected to sexual harassment and bullying. This situation is obviously problematic for individual women's employmentand careers. But it also limits the quality and nature of the films that are made, the storytelling and screen experiencesavailable to audiences, and the opportunities and resources screen industry businesses can capitalise on. Improvinggender equity in the film industries is thus important for women workers, audiences, businesses and societies.There have, of course, over the last three decades been many initiatives that tried to improve gender equity in theinternational film industries. But these initiatives and regulatory interventions by governments and industry stakeholdershave produced minimal change. In some jurisdictions gender equity measures have in fact worsened.What is needed, therefore, is a significant step-change in (1) our understanding of the causes of gender inequality, and (2)the development, design, implementation and evaluation of policies and programs designed to promote gender equity inthe international screen industries. GEP Analysis will provide that step-change.GEP Analysis makes an important change in the methods and concept used. Previously, research and practice focusmainly on empowering individual women. GEP Analysis will instead focus on industry norms, structures and practices: whatis it in the organisation of the film industries, in the way production is organised and in people's everyday behaviour thatconstrains gender equity?With this important change of perspective, GEP Analysis will- Build new and better databases that allow us to analyse women's participation in the film industries in new ways; morecomprehensively, across countries, in relation to policy interventions and national economic data etc.- Analyse how previous policy interventions were designed and how successful they were, on the basis of interviews withindustry stakeholders, statistical analysis, network analysis;- Model, on the basis of this new data, the likely gender equity outcomes of different policy alternatives.- Undertake 'what works' analysis and embed these findings with the international community of film industry stakeholders.In doing so, GEP Analysis will help the film industries chose more effective gender equity policies and improve genderequity, to the benefit of women, the creative output, audiences and businesses. GEP Analysis will also achieve a number ofmethodological and conceptual innovations that will help academics deliver better research and policy recommendations inthe future.GEP Analysis will be undertaken by a team of leading screen industry researchers in Canada, Germany and the UK. It willfocus on the film industries in these countries and on these film industries' immediate international context, most notablythe Eurimage footprint of Europe and Canada.