Thursday, June 20, 2019

British TV Network Will Ban Comedy Shows By All-Male Writing Staffs

From British TV Network Will Ban Comedy Shows By All-Male Writing Staffs:

Schuster stressed that the initiative is not simply aimed at hiring more women and “hitting quotas or targets as some form of box ticking exercise,” but also at changing the male-dominated culture of comedy.

What a crock of junk.

Aren't they saying, "We're going to make writing staffs include women." Isn't that a quota, that in order to have a writing staff, you have to have a woman on the staff?

I would answer, "Yes, it is." And yet, there's the quote about 'hitting quotas or targets as some form of box ticking exercise', which to my simple brain, is a contradiction.




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