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Have you experienced
Have you experienced
parity
equity
Have
you experienced
parityand
and
equity
parity
and equity
concerns
concernsat
atwork?
work?
concerns at work?

10%

80%

Types of Equity and Parity Concerns Reported
By Respondents
80%

80%

80% 76%

76%

60%

10%

60%

51%

40%

40%

51%

20%

90%

20%

90%

0%

Negative Workplace

0%

Yes

No

Yes

Gender-based
Harassment

Negative Workplace

No

ment status, experiences of discrimina- this survey may prefer other pronouns.)
tion, and demographics. (For purposes
Survey results exposed serious
of this article, the pronouns she/her/ parity issues within the theatre design
hers and the nouns woman/women are and production industry. Of the 589 reused, as this survey was directed to- spondents to this survey, 533 had exRespondents Reporting
Discrimination
by Discipline
wards female-identifying
persons, with
perienced one
or more of the following
94%
93%
93% concerns: negative
93%
the understanding that responders to parity and equity

Pay Gap

Gender-based
Harassment

Pay Gap

workplace environment, gender-based
harassment, and pay gaps. Ninety percent of respondents had encountered
at least one of those experiences of
discrimination. Among them 80 percent had experienced a negative workplace environment, 76 percent had
Respondents Reporting Discrimination by Discipline
experienced selected gender-based
94%
93%
93%
93% 91%
92%
harassment, and 51 percent had ex90%
perienced a pay gap. (Note that parity
is understood to refer to equal pay or
92% 89%
91%
89%
90%
equal status, while equity speaks more
88%
88%
to notions of justice, such as equal or
89%
89%
87%
fair treatment.)
86%
88%
88%
▾ Experience
▾ Products
The available comments section
enabled many responders to expand
87%
▾ Ideas
▾
Resources
84%
OVER
YEARS
86%
Costume
Costume
Lighting
Lighting
Properties
Scenic
Sound
Sound
Stage
on their selection. A sampling of reDesign
Production
Design
Production
Artisans
Design
Production▾ Design
Management
▾ Solutions
Possibilities
sponses points to the complexity and
84%
pervasiveness of equity and parity conCostume
Costume
Lighting
Lighting
Properties
Scenic
Sound
Sound
Stage
Design
Production
Design
Production
Artisans
Design
Production
Design
Management
cerns. One costume designer and shop
manager wrote about discipline-based
discrimination: "I had a managing
Percentage of Respondents Working in Particular Disciplinesproducer who did not value women.
I was the resident costume designer
and shop manager. I was paid less than
all other staff, even though I had been
Percentage of Respondents Working in Particular Disciplines
there the longest and had an MFA in
Stage Management
design.32%
He also routinely turned down
my purchase requests for basic shop
Lighting Production
25%
supplies while fully funding the scene
Stage Management
shop in addition 32%
to giving the scene
Costume Production
23%
shop free alcohol from concessions."
Lighting
Another
costume designer and techni25%
Whether
it'sProduction
a sheet of gel or a building-wide lighting network. One thing remains constant:
Lighting Design
22%
cian detailed her experience in producBarbizon Lighting's dedication to understanding our customer's needs.
Costume Production
23%tion meetings: "Directors really only
Costume
Design
21%
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want to talk to scenic designers at the
Lighting
Design
beginning of productions-costumes
22%
Atlanta
▾
Boston
▾
Charlotte
▾
Chicago
▾
Dallas
▾
Denver
▾
Miami
▾
New
York
Properties Artisans
21%
Orlando ▾ Phoenix ▾ Washington D.C. ▾ Australia ▾ United Kingdom
come much later in many cases-and
Costume Design
21%
Scenic Design
18%

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21%
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