Introducing: Mainstreaming Media Diversity. While some individual women have enjoyed incredible success, women in general are still largely absent from the top executive and artists levels of media.  This brand new two-year initiative is aimed at improving the representation of women from a diversity of  backgrounds in senior positions in media, while also working to create more positive workplace cultures for all women in the screen-based industries.
The programs will place senior and up and coming executives,  content-producers and artists into cutting edge pilot projects along with today’s leading media organizations in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Details of the program including how to become involved as a participant or corporate partner will be announced in the Winter of 2011. Programs will take place in Spring 2012.

 

Background

This new program was inspired by discussion and research presented at SexMoneyMedia 2010 in Vancouver.  Studies show that while women have made significant advances in the workplace in the past decades, those advances still haven’t reached the top levels in most industries.  Despite the impressive accomplishments of individual women, women in general are still largely absent at the senior levels in media.

A report on the absence and presence of women in senior levels of the Canadian media industry will be released by Women in View in the Fall, 2011.

Mainstreaming Media Diversity is funded by the Status of Women Canada and produced in association with Women in Film & Television – Vancouver.