How life for women in Britain is getting tougher
The UK has dropped down a global scale of gender equality to 26th place. Where is the government going wrong – and how can we fix politics, pay and promotions?
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Centering Disabled Arts and Audiences
Ashleigh Hibbins and Maya Sharma share their recent learning around disabled access, audiences, artists and art.
#HollywoodSoWhite: diversity report gives damning picture of US film industry
Ethnic minorities and LGBT community continue suffer at the hands of ‘inclusion crisis’; meanwhile only 3% of film directors are women, with a third of female characters shown with ‘partial or full nudity’.
One-third of Britons are too poor to ‘join in with society’
Just under a third of people in Britain are excluded from mainstream society because they cannot afford to join in cultural activities such as going to the cinema, taking a holiday or buying consumer goods.
Number of BAME arts workers must improve, says Arts Council report
Black and minority ethnic people make up 17% of English arts workforce and disabled people account for 4%, report finds.
BAME directors discuss their experiences in the UK television industry
Today Directors UK releases its new report looking at the under-representation and under-employment of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) directors: UK Television: Adjusting the Colour Balance. Our report reveals the shocking statistic that only 1.5% of UK television is made by a BAME director.
Just 16% of screenwriters in UK film are women, study finds
Writers’ Guild says number of women in film and TV has ‘flatlined’ and urges commissioners to ‘let women tell stories’.
How a new technology will help blind people ‘see’ at the cinema
An app that creates an audio description soundtrack for films is helping blind people ‘see’ at the cinema – but not enough is being done to implement the technology.
Reel life: the biographical films bringing joy to people with dementia
My Life Films combine music, photos, clips and interviews to celebrate the lives of those with dementia – and help carers build better patient relationships.
Designing a Dementia friendly website
Some well-established web design basics: minimize the number of choices that someone has to make; create self-explanatory navigation tools; help people get to what they’re looking for as quickly as possible.
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