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US ACLU Urges Inquiry Into Hollywood’s Gender Bias Against Female Directors

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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) urged on Tuesday US state and federal agencies to investigate into Hollywood's discrimination against female directors.

MOSCOW, May 13 (Sputnik) — The letters follow a research by the ACLU of South California and the national ACLU Women's Rights Project that provided statistic evidence of what the organizations call "stereotyping and implicit bias" towards female directors.

"We request that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) develop and file Commissioner's charges and initiate an investigation into systematic failure to hire women directors … at all levels of the film and television industry," one of ACLU's letters to the agencies reads.

The three agencies receiving the ACLU letters are the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, and the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

The letters that ACLU has sent include numerous examples of gender bias. For instance, in 2014, only seven percent of directors on the top 250 grossing films were women.

In 2014, one-third of Hollywood TV shows had no women directing "even a single episode," the letter read.

An "alarming" number of cases shows that employers in Hollywood shut women out of television work entirely, ACLU said.

As such hiring practices in Hollywood continue, they must be considered civil rights and gender discrimination, according to the letters.

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