Gender bias in theatre.
Mon, 29 June 2009, 09:43 amgrantwatson30 posts in thread
Gender bias in theatre.
Mon, 29 June 2009, 09:43 amThere is a great article here about gender bias in American theatre, where the majority of plays staged are by male authors. I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts about the findings presented in the article.
Do you think there's a problem of gender bias here in Australia? What can we do? What should we do?
I also find it difficult to
Tue, 30 June 2009, 10:19 amI also find it difficult to believe, given the somewhat liberal politics of theatre companies and the arts in general, that anyone would discriminate against a playwright based on their gender.
Yet this is what the study has found, although it does seem as if it's an unconscious process rather than any kind of active, deliberate discrimination.
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