Creative Equity Toolkit

'Preserved in aspic': opera embarks on diversity drive

Article on English National Opera's plan to recruit four chorus members that are black, Asian and minority ethnic. Chief Executive Stuart Murphy says it's “really shocking” that 39 of ENO’s 40-strong chorus were white. “We weren’t true to our values, we didn’t represent Britain.”

#Publishingpaidme: authors share advances to expose racial disparities

Article on the #publishingpaidme movement which aims to highlight disparities in the payment of black and white authors. Nearly 3000 writers have disclosed their payment alongside demographic data.

'Malorie Blackman, the UK’s former children’s laureate and author of the Noughts and Crosses series, wrote that she had “never in my life received anything like the sums being posted by some white authors”.'

Targets

Links to broadcasters in the UK who have set diversity targets and provided guidelines for their staff and contractors on how to meet them.

The case for ‘inclusion riders’ in creative industries

Analysis of the legal implications in Australia for including inclusion riders.

'But the question essentially boils down to this: is the measure targeted at increasing opportunities for a disadvantaged group, and is it a reasonable and/or appropriate way of achieving this?... inclusion riders are likely to meet this test and qualify as a special measure under all four laws. The groups targeted by inclusion riders are undoubtedly disadvantaged in the film industry.'

The data behind Hollywood's sexism

TED talk in which Stacy Smith outlines her idea of inclusion riders.

“The typical feature film has about 40 to 45 speaking characters in it. I would argue that only 8-10 of those characters are actually relevant to the story. The remaining 30 or so roles, there’s no reason why those minor roles can’t match or reflect the demography of where the story is taking place. An equity rider by an A-lister in their contract can stipulate that those roles reflect the world in which we actually live."