The impact of Hollywood’s #MeToo reckoning may be continuing to pay off, according to a new survey conducted by Women in Film (Wif).
On the sixth anniversary of the groundbreaking New York Times exposé outing mega-producer Harvey Weinstein as a serial abuser, Wif unveiled its 2023 survey results involving workplace harassment and assault.
The Weinstein saga was captured in the 2022 film “She Said”; the former Miramax and Weinstein Company executive is currently serving decades in prison and facing a new lawsuit from actress Julia Ormond.The 2023 Wif survey polled 266 respondents throughout the entertainment industry, with answers being accumulated between September 11 and September 22, 2023.
Respondents are current or former screen industry employees, with 95.4 percent of respondents identifying as women, 1.9 percent as men, and 2.7 percent identifying as nonbinary or another gender; 1.1 percent of respondents identify as trans.The results showed that 59 percent of respondents believe that the culture around abuse/harassment/misconduct in…
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