Getting in, getting on, getting out? Women as career scramblers in the UK film and television industries

Title: Getting in, getting on, getting out? Women as career scramblers in the UK film and television industries
Creator: Wing-Fai, Leung; Gill, Rosalind; Randle, Keith
Relation: Sociological Review Vol. 63, Issue 1, Suppl., p. 50-65
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954X.12240
Publisher: Sage
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: This article looks at the predominance of freelancing in the film and television industries as a lens to examine the persistence of gender inequalities within these fields. Previous research has indicated that women fare better in larger organizations with more stable patterns of employment, and in this article we explore why that might be the case, by focusing on the experiences of female freelancers at a moment when project-based, precarious work and informal recruitment practices are increasing in the UK film and television sector. We highlight in particular the ways in which gender inequality is mediated by age and parental status, and the impact of intersectional identities on women's ability to sustain a career in film and television.
Subject: freelancing; film; television; informality; parenting
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1356295
Identifier: uon:31664
Identifier: ISSN:0038-0261
Language: eng
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