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SAG WOMEN'S COMMITTEE CAUCUS |
The Screen Actors Guild Women’s Committee is having a caucus to discuss concerns and issues facing women actors. A panel composed of prominent industry professionals, including members of the WGA, DGA, and PGA, as well as executives, directors and showrunners will discuss their experiences, perspectives and strategies for addressing ways to combat problems of ageism, discrimination, and the portrayal of women of all ages.
Join us for an enlightening evening of thoughtful and provocative dialogue and tasty refreshments!
When: Thursday, May 1
7 p.m.
Where: Screen Actors Guild
James Cagney Room, 1st Floor
5757 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Space is limited. Please RSVP directly to the SAG Foundation @ http://www.sagfoundation.org/cgi-bin/event.cgi?session_file=&site_category=liferaft&date=20080501 if you are a SAG member. All others please call the SAG Foundation hotline at: (323) 549-6488 with your name, number and affiliation. Please note if you have reserved an event through the SAG Foundation in the past and have not attended, you may not be eligible to attend this event. For more information, please contact SAG Affirmative Action & Diversity Department at diversity@sag.org or (323) 549-6644.
Parking: Validation is available at the meeting
Screen Actors Guild National Women’s Committee
The Women’s Committee works to promote equal employment opportunities for female SAG members. It operates with National Statement of Purpose and national direction to promote job opportunities for women. It also encourages positive images of women in film and television, ending sexual stereotypes, and educating the industry in regards to representation of women, both in numbers and quality of representation. The Committee is open to both sexes. When I was first elected to the National Board of the Screen Actors Guild, I saw the stats in our Orientation Manual regarding the earnings of the membership. As they were broken down by region, gender, and age, you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that once a woman reaches 40 (apparently, the golden years!) the work begins to plummet significantly. As Susan Sontag noted in the 70s, “men’s success is measured by what they do, whereas women’s success is measured by how they look.” And since being elected the National Chair of SAG’s Women’s Committee, I’ve continued my education on the inequity and the double standard in the portrayal of women in media.
We, the Screen Actors Guild Women’s Committee are presently organizing a Women’s Caucus to get a dialogue going with the SAG membership, specifically targeting the relevant issues and concerns facing women and actors. Our panel will be composed of members of the WGA, DGA, and PGA as well as studio executives, and casting directors. We want to bring the Creators and Showrunners together, to get a dialogue going, and begin to combat the problems of ageism, discrimination, and the portrayal of women of all ages. Presently, participating in the panel discussion are Bonnie Bruckheimer (producer, Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood), Katherine Fugate (Showrunner of Lifetime’s Army Wives), Gayle Nachlis, (Executive Director of Women in Film). Directors and studio execs alike have been asked to play a role in this momentous event.
The SAG Women’s Caucus is a way to continue this educational process, and hopefully, activate SAG members and employers alike to help change this distorted picture of women in film and television.
The Caucus will be held on May 1st, 2008 from 7-10 pm in the Cagney Room at the Screen Actors Guild, 5757 Wilshire Blvd.,1st Fl. We hope you will be a part of it, and a part of the change.
Yours Sincerely,
Susan Savage,
National Chair,
Screen Actors Guild Women’s Committee
Join us for an enlightening evening of thoughtful and provocative dialogue and tasty refreshments!
When: Thursday, May 1
7 p.m.
Where: Screen Actors Guild
James Cagney Room, 1st Floor
5757 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Space is limited. Please RSVP directly to the SAG Foundation @ http://www.sagfoundation.org/cgi-bin/event.cgi?session_file=&site_category=liferaft&date=20080501 if you are a SAG member. All others please call the SAG Foundation hotline at: (323) 549-6488 with your name, number and affiliation. Please note if you have reserved an event through the SAG Foundation in the past and have not attended, you may not be eligible to attend this event. For more information, please contact SAG Affirmative Action & Diversity Department at diversity@sag.org or (323) 549-6644.
Parking: Validation is available at the meeting
Screen Actors Guild National Women’s Committee
The Women’s Committee works to promote equal employment opportunities for female SAG members. It operates with National Statement of Purpose and national direction to promote job opportunities for women. It also encourages positive images of women in film and television, ending sexual stereotypes, and educating the industry in regards to representation of women, both in numbers and quality of representation. The Committee is open to both sexes. When I was first elected to the National Board of the Screen Actors Guild, I saw the stats in our Orientation Manual regarding the earnings of the membership. As they were broken down by region, gender, and age, you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that once a woman reaches 40 (apparently, the golden years!) the work begins to plummet significantly. As Susan Sontag noted in the 70s, “men’s success is measured by what they do, whereas women’s success is measured by how they look.” And since being elected the National Chair of SAG’s Women’s Committee, I’ve continued my education on the inequity and the double standard in the portrayal of women in media.
We, the Screen Actors Guild Women’s Committee are presently organizing a Women’s Caucus to get a dialogue going with the SAG membership, specifically targeting the relevant issues and concerns facing women and actors. Our panel will be composed of members of the WGA, DGA, and PGA as well as studio executives, and casting directors. We want to bring the Creators and Showrunners together, to get a dialogue going, and begin to combat the problems of ageism, discrimination, and the portrayal of women of all ages. Presently, participating in the panel discussion are Bonnie Bruckheimer (producer, Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood), Katherine Fugate (Showrunner of Lifetime’s Army Wives), Gayle Nachlis, (Executive Director of Women in Film). Directors and studio execs alike have been asked to play a role in this momentous event.
The SAG Women’s Caucus is a way to continue this educational process, and hopefully, activate SAG members and employers alike to help change this distorted picture of women in film and television.
The Caucus will be held on May 1st, 2008 from 7-10 pm in the Cagney Room at the Screen Actors Guild, 5757 Wilshire Blvd.,1st Fl. We hope you will be a part of it, and a part of the change.
Yours Sincerely,
Susan Savage,
National Chair,
Screen Actors Guild Women’s Committee