Hiring #MeToo men as ‘distressed assets’ may help Paramount’s finances but it’s a myopic game to play
In Hollywood, hiring decisions have an impact on the types of stories that get told. A separate report from San Diego State University’s Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film found that last year women who worked on the top 250 films continued to be wildly under-represented as producers (28%), executive producers (23%), writers (20%), editors (20%) and cinematographers (7%). Meanwhile, the percentage of top-grossing films with female protagonists dropped from 42% in 2024 to 29% in 2025. As the report put it, “Hollywood has never needed permission to exclude and diminish women, but it now has it.”
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