Media and Research
Understanding the landscape is the first step to reshaping it.
Here you’ll find research, reports, and media coverage that reveal where we are, how far we’ve come, and where change is still needed. These insights help inform smarter decisions, stronger advocacy, and a clearer path forward.
How Women Can Win
in the Workplace
Forbes
Visual Effects & Animation
World Atlas 2025
Women in the Workplace 2024:
The 10th Anniversary Report
McKinsey
Why The Child Care Crisis Is
Actually An Economic Crisis
Forbes
Crisis in childcare and the
state of work in America
KPMG
U.S. Child Care Crisis Is
Holding Back The Workforce
Forbes
The Class Divide Among Women in the Workforce is Widening
AXIOS
Why So Many Women are Quitting the Workforce
TIME
What’s Holding Back Working Women in 2025?
Forbes
Global Gender Gap Report 2023
World Economic Forum
Providing Affordable, Accessible and High-Quality Child Care
Center for American Progress
Global Gender Gap Report 2025
World Economic Forum
Deloitte’s Women @ Work 2024 Report: A Global Outlook
Deloitte
Is Europe the Last Bastion of DEI in Film and TV?
Hollywood Reporter
DEI is Disappearing in Hollywood. Was It Ever Really Here?
Hollywood Reporter
With DEI Rollbacks, the Business of Hollywood May Take a Hit
Wrap/Yahoo
DEI Commitments are Vanishing Fast
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment Industry Contraction Affects Inclusion
USC Annenberg
Hollywood’s DEI Programs Have Begun to D-I-E. How Hard Did the Industry Really Try?
Vanity Fair
The State of Diversity in Animation 2024
Academy of Animated Art
Gender Equity in Film
The Hollywood Reporter
The Most Male-Dominated and Non-Diverse Academy Brance is VFX
The Hollywood Reporter
How Women are Changing the VFX Industry/International Women’s Day
VFX Wire
Why Are There So Few Women Working in Visual Effects?
LAist
Inclusion in Animation: The Next Chapter
Animation Magazine
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Invisible in Visual Effects:
Understanding the Prevalence and Experiences of Women in the Field
USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative with Women in Animation (November 2021)
Increasing Inclusion in Animation:
Investigating Opportunities, Challenges
and the Classroom to the C-Suite Pipeline
USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative with Women in Animation (June 2019)
USC Annenberg Study Defines Areas Of Trouble, Suggests Improvements, For Women Working In Animation
-Forbes
WIA, USC Annenberg Present Major Study ‘Inclusion in Animation’ at Annecy Festival
-Variety
Inclusion In Animation Study Finds Gains For Women, But Much Work Still To Be Done – Annecy
-Deadline