Friday, November 30, 2012

Discrimination Against Female Playwrights




This article has to do with the fact that women playwright’s today have a harder time getting their plays produced on Broadway, than men do. However, due to a study by Emily Glassberg Sands, a graduate student at Harvard University, there is a shortage of good women scripts. There are less women playwrights, and therefore less plays being produced by women. Another study showed that men rate women and men playwright’s equally, but women rate women less because they are aware of the struggles that women face, and therefore expect them to perform at a lesser level than men. In the third study, Sands compares women playwrights to black, male, baseball players during the 1960’s and 70’s. Like these men had to, works by women playwrights today are required to make more of a profit than those written by men, and even when they do, producers do not keep them running any longer than those written by men. Ms. Sands also discovered that plays that star a woman and are written by women, are less likely to be produced.


“There is discrimination against female playwrights in the theatre community.”


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