Little support, long hours and unstable employment for working moms have contributed to Hollywood's gender divide. But some film and TV pros are pushing for change.
“We tell women they should expect to go to worknot see their children,” Brosh McKenna says, “I definitely think it’s keeping women out of the business.”Virtually all writers in television are freelance contractors with little job security, which makes family planning difficult.
“Accommodating a room around parents — and really mothers, because I feel like mothers have a different thing going on, whether people want to admit it or not — is really important,” she says. “It’s part of the culture here that nobody’s going to blink if there’s a kid in the office playing on the floor rolling a car,” she says of Shondaland, where employees are welcome to bring children. “That’s born out of the fact that when I wrote ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ I wrote it with a baby strapped to my chest. She learned to walk up and down the hallways of ‘Grey’s.’ For me, that was the way this was going to work.”Sara Fischer likes to say she has a “St.
For moms who work in production, conditions have improved, she says, but largely in “cosmetic ways.” “There are places to pump, but what if you [can’t] take the time?”Motherhood can feel like a liability in an industry where certain on-set roles are rarely held by women.
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