The article by Ellen Neuborne intrigued me. Am I going to encounter such difficulties when I enter the workplace? I actually have thought about that since middle school probably. Now I have decided to enter a male-dominated career field, filmmaking, and am actually excited to break down gender barriers. I took an intro to film studies class this semester and guess how many female directors, producers, cinematographers, screenwriters, and on and on we learned about? ZERO! (Don’t worry, I definitely mentioned that in my course evaluation.) I’m sure there are some female filmmakers out there that have made successful movies…but apparently they are not worth discussing when compared to the “greats”look at the credits in all classic movies basically. I was very disturbed that my professor did not research any female filmmakers, or perhaps discuss the noted absence of women…but again, he apparently deemed that unnecessary. To get back to the article, I would say that my film studies class in the fall of 2005 is an example of what Ellen Neuborne is talking about. My professor was very subtle and by not mentioning ANY women (besides BRIEFLY touching on a FEW actresses), he made his thoughts about women known.
Posted by Julia Schaffer at December 10, 2005 10:27 AM