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

全球电影业表现出明显的性别不平等：(1)妇女在劳动力中的代表性不足；(2)获得的工资和其他奖励较少；(3)创意、管理和经济机会比男子少；(4)遭受性骚扰和欺凌。这种情况对妇女个人的就业和职业生涯是有问题的。但它也限制了电影的质量和性质、观众可以获得的故事讲述和银幕体验，以及银幕行业企业可以利用的机会和资源。因此，改善电影业中的性别平等对女性工作者、观众、企业和社会都很重要。在过去的三十年里，有许多举措试图改善国际电影业中的性别平等。但政府和行业利益相关者的这些举措和监管干预产生的变化微乎其微。在一些司法管辖区，性别平等措施实际上已经恶化。需要的是在(1)我们对性别不平等原因的理解，以及(2)旨在促进国际银幕行业性别平等的政策和方案的制定、设计、实施和评估方面做出重大改变。GEP分析将提供这一阶梯变化。GEP分析在使用的方法和概念上进行了重要的改变。此前，研究和实践主要集中在赋予妇女个人权力上。GEP分析将把重点放在行业规范、结构和实践上：在电影业的组织结构、制作方式和人们的日常行为中，什么限制了性别平等？随着这一重要的视角变化，GEP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女性参与电影业的情况。更全面地说，在各国，关于政策干预措施和国家经济数据--根据对行业利益攸关方的采访、统计分析、网络分析--分析以前的政策干预措施是如何设计的，以及它们有多成功--根据这些新数据，建立模型，分析不同政策替代方案可能产生的性别平等结果--进行“有效的”分析，并将这些结果嵌入国际电影业利益相关者社区。GEP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，以造福妇女、创意产出、观众和企业。GEP分析还将实现一些方法和概念创新，帮助学者在未来提供更好的研究和政策建议。GEP分析将由加拿大、德国和英国的领先银幕行业研究人员组成的团队进行，重点关注这些国家的电影业及其直接的国际背景，最引人注目的是欧洲和加拿大的EurImage足迹。

Global film industries 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; (4) are subjected to sexual harassment and bullying. This situation is problematic for individual women’s employment and careers. But it also limits quality and nature of the films made, the storytelling and screen experiences available to audiences, and opportunities and resources screen industry businesses can capitalise on. Improving gender equity in the film industries is thus important for women workers, audiences, businesses and societies.There have over the last three decades been many initiatives that tried to improve gender equity in the international film industries. But these initiatives and regulatory interventions by governments and industry stakeholders have produced minimal change. In some jurisdictions gender equity measures have in fact worsened.What is needed 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 in 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 focused mainly on empowering individual women. GEP Analysis will instead focus on industry norms, structures and practices: what in the organisation of the film industries, in the way production is organised and in people’s everyday behaviour constrains 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; more comprehensively, across countries, in relation to policy interventions and national economic data- analyse how previous policy interventions were designed and how successful they were, on the basis of interviews with industry 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.GEP Analysis will help film industries chose more effective gender equity policies and improve gender equity, to the benefit of women, the creative output, audiences and businesses. GEP Analysis will also achieve a number of methodological and conceptual innovations that will help academics deliver better research and policy recommendations in the future.GEP Analysis will be undertaken by a team of leading screen industry researchers in Canada, Germany and the UK and focuses on the film industries in these countries and their immediate international context, most notably the Eurimage footprint of Europe and Canada.