{"id":15542,"date":"2014-03-14T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T09:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=15542"},"modified":"2016-02-27T15:35:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T15:35:38","slug":"%d6%85%d5%bd%d5%af%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%a8-%d5%bf%d5%b2%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%a4-%d5%a7-%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%a5%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%ba%d5%a1%d5%bf%d5%be%d5%a1%d5%a2%d5%a5%d6%80-%d5%af%d5%ab%d5%b6%d5%b8%d5%b4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/%d6%85%d5%bd%d5%af%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%a8-%d5%bf%d5%b2%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%a4-%d5%a7-%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%a5%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%ba%d5%a1%d5%bf%d5%be%d5%a1%d5%a2%d5%a5%d6%80-%d5%af%d5%ab%d5%b6%d5%b8%d5%b4\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar is (Almost Always) A Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Oskar.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Did you know that on average\u00a0<strong>only 16% of the nominees have been women\u00a0<\/strong>since the awards began?\u00a0This includes nominees for the \u201cBest Actress\u201d categories. Or did you know that in the 2013 Oscars, to be awarded on March 1, 2014, seven categories had zero female nominees? We explored the data behind the gender gap at the prestigious Academy Awards. See our findings below.<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h3><strong>Huge Oscar Gender Gap is Not Shrinking<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the 86 years of the Academy Awards, several things have remained constant. The Red Carpet. The golden statuette. And the absence of women nominees for the award.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"height: 375px; width: 500px; border: 0;\" src=\"\/\/oscars.silk.co\/s\/embed\/linechart\/collection\/gendergap%20-%20years\/numeric\/percentage%20male%20nominees\/numeric\/percentage%20female%20nominees\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 12px; color: gray;\">Data from <a href=\"http:\/\/oscars.silk.co\">oscars.silk.co<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>Breakdown by gender of the Oscars&#8217; nominees 1928-2013. Including &#8220;Acting&#8221; categories.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the Academy Awards season pictures\u00a0of actresses monopolize the front pages of websites, magazines, newspapers and TV shows. We discuss their\u00a0stunning bodies, their\u00a0designer clothes,\u00a0their\u00a0hairstyles, their\u00a0make-up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, very few women are\u00a0<em>actually<\/em>\u00a0<em>nominated<\/em>\u00a0for an Oscar. In some categories, a woman has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oscars.silk.co\/explore\/table\/collection\/gendergap%20-%20categories\/column\/female%20candidates%20(percentage)\">never\u00a0been nominated<\/a>\u00a0for an Oscar, and the percentage of female nominees hasn&#8217;t varied much for 86 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The highest percentage of \u00a0female nominees was in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oscars.silk.co\/page\/1994\">1994<\/a>,\u00a0at 26%. And it \u00a0immediately dropped to 16% the next year. In fact,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oscars.silk.co\/page\/2002\">2002<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oscars.silk.co\/page\/2004\">2004<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oscars.silk.co\/page\/2008\">2008<\/a>\u00a0were all near-record low years for female Oscar nominations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Oscar Winners are Even More Likely to be Male\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The highest percentage of female winners was in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oscars.silk.co\/page\/1929\">1929<\/a>. Now the trend is going backwards again.\u00a0<strong>From<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oscars.silk.co\/page\/2008\">2008<\/a>\u00a0through the 2013, fewer women won statuettes than the historical average.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The\u00a02011 Oscars recorded only 7% female winners. The lowest percentage of female winners happened in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oscars.silk.co\/page\/1947\">1947<\/a>, at 6%. Historically, men when more than their fair share of statuettes even taking into account their overrepresentation. Over the 86 years,\u00a0<strong>men have on average won 86% of the Awards while being nominated on average for 84% of them. Again, the trendline is not encouraging.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Categories Women Win&#8230;And Categories Where They Barely Exist<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s presence is remarkably poor in nearly all categories of the Awards (except for gender specific categories that contain the word &#8220;Acting&#8221;). In some categories their absence is remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"height: 375px; width: 500px; border: 0;\" src=\"\/\/oscars.silk.co\/s\/embed\/columnchart\/collection\/gendergap%20-%20categories\/numeric\/male%20candidates%20(percentage)\/numeric\/female%20candidates%20(percentage)\/order\/desc\/male%20candidates%20(percentage)\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 12px; color: gray;\">Data from <a href=\"http:\/\/oscars.silk.co\">oscars.silk.co<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>Gender breakdown of the candidates in each of the fields prized at the Academy Awards (1928-2013)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Women are nearly even with men in a few lesser categories. Only in the field of<strong>Costume Design<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>we see woman actually surpassing men. In this category they constitute well 55% of the candidates and 58% of the winners. The second category where women score well is for\u00a0<strong>Make-up.<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Women make up\u00a032% of the winners. Third place for female presence goes to\u00a0<strong>Documentary<\/strong>\u00a0awards, where woman have been 24% of the nominees and 23% of the winners: surely not bad compared to the rest of the categories, but still fare from a 50-50 ratio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To know if things improving or getting worse, let&#8217;s have a look at the composition of nominees for this edition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2014 Oscars: Very Few Women Nominees<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Excluding the Acting categories, for the 86th Edition of the Academy Awards \u00a0nominees are\u00a0<strong>17% women and 83% men.\u00a0<\/strong>there are\u00a0<strong>zero female candidates<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>for 7 out of the 19 categories<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Cinematography<\/li>\n<li>Best Director<\/li>\n<li>Best Film Editing<\/li>\n<li>Best Music (Original Score)<\/li>\n<li>Best Sound Editing<\/li>\n<li>Best Sound Mixing<\/li>\n<li>Best Visual Effects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"height: 375px; width: 500px; border: 0;\" src=\"\/\/oscars.silk.co\/s\/embed\/columnchart\/collection\/gendergap%20-%202013%20focus\/numeric\/male%20candidates%20(percentage)\/numeric\/female%20candidates%20(percentage)\/order\/desc\/male%20candidates%20(percentage)\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; font-size: 12px; color: gray;\">Data from <a href=\"http:\/\/oscars.silk.co\">oscars.silk.co<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>Gender breakdown of the candidates for the 86th Academy Awards\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0(<em>Excluding Best Leading Actress, Best Leading Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Supporting Actor).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/oscars.silk.co\/page\/Gender%20Gap%20at%20the%20Academy%20Awards\">The Oskar Database<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">Did you know that on average\u00a0only 16% of the nominees have been women\u00a0since the awards began?\u00a0This includes nominees for the \u201cBest Actress\u201d categories. Or did you know that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-99","category-152"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}