Editing Screen Actors Guild (section)

=== Woman's Committee timeline ===
* '''1972:''' The Screen Actors Guild Women's Committee is founded. [[Brigham Young University]] conducts a study that reveals 81.7% of television roles are male, versus 18.3% female.
* '''1974–1976:''' In conjunction with the [[Directors Guild of America]], the Screen Actors Guild compiles statistical surveys that explicitly document the disenfranchisement of their women members, often linking the data to a specific studio, network and in several cases individual television shows. These efforts are spearheaded by the two organizations' individual Women's Committees.
* '''1975:''' [[Kathleen Nolan]] becomes the Screen Actors Guild's first female president.<ref name="SAG timeline">{{cite web|title=SAG History – Timeline |url=http://www.sag.org/content/womens-committee |access-date=15 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514033735/http://www.sag.org/content/womens-committee |archive-date=May 14, 2012 }}</ref>
* '''1979:''' A study reveals that between 1949 and 1979, 7,332 feature films were made and released by major distributors. Fourteen, a mere 0.19%, were directed by women.
* '''October 10, 1979:''' Women and Minorities Rally. President [[Kathleen Nolan]] leads protest rally, with signs reading "Women and Minorities: Not Seen on the American Scene"..."Window Dressing on the Set"...and "TV: it's Time for a Facelift".<ref name="SAG timeline" />
* '''1981–1985:''' [[Leslie Hoffman]], first stuntwoman elected to the Hollywood Screen Actors Board. She works towards hiring more women, minorities, seniors, and disabled performers as stuntpeople. She is blacklisted by the Screen Actors Guild Board and Stuntmen Groups.
* '''1984:''' SAG creates additional low-budget motion picture agreement, giving advantages to productions that hire more women, minorities, seniors, and disabled performers. SAG's New York branch forms Women's Voice-Over Committee to study why women get only 10–20% of voiceover work.<ref name="SAG timeline" />
* '''1986:''' Women's voice-over study by McCollum/Spielman and Company indicates "it makes absolutely no difference whether a male or female voice is used as a TV commercial voice-over", destroying long-held advertising industry assertion that male voices "sell better" and carry "more authority".<ref name="SAG timeline" />
* '''1989:''' A SAG report reveals that 71% of all roles in feature films and 64% of all roles in TV went to men. The report said the combined income of men more than doubled that of women ($644 million to $296 million).
* '''1990:''' At the SAG National Women's Conference, [[Meryl Streep]] keynotes first national event, emphasizing the decline in women's work opportunities, pay parity, and role models within the film industry.<ref name="SAG timeline" /> She lashes out at the film industry for downplaying the importance of women both on screen and off.
* '''1996:''' Composition of female leading roles rises to 40%, but supporting roles for women decline to 33%.
* '''1997:''' SAG contracts for actresses exceed $472 million, while male SAG contracts receive more than $928 million.
* '''2004:''' Only 37% of all SAG television and film roles go to women.<ref name="AFL-CIO">{{cite web |title=Professional Women: Vital Statistics |url=http://dpeaflcio.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Professional-Women-2010.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120524093910/http://dpeaflcio.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Professional-Women-2010.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-05-24 |publisher=Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO |date=April 2010 |access-date=22 April 2011 }}</ref>
* '''2008:''' [[Kathryn Bigelow]] becomes the first woman to win the [[Oscar for Best Director]] of a Motion Picture, after being only the fourth woman in history to secure a nomination. Statistics show that only 9% of directors are female.<ref>{{cite news |last=Taylor |first=Ella |title=The New Generation of Female Filmmakers |url=http://www.elle.com/Pop-Culture/Movies-TV-Music-Books/The-New-Generation-of-Female-Filmmakers |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728173035/http://www.elle.com/Pop-Culture/Movies-TV-Music-Books/The-New-Generation-of-Female-Filmmakers |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 28, 2012 |access-date=April 20, 2011 |newspaper=Elle Magazine |date=October 21, 2009 }}</ref>
* '''2009:''' Dr. Martha Lauzen of the Alliance for Women Film Journalists, conducts a study revealing that, of 2009's top 250 films at box offices, women comprised only 16% of the directors, producers, writers, and other top jobs. This represents a 3% decline from the 2001 study showing 19% female composition.<ref>{{cite web |last=Merin |first=Jennifer |title=Women on Film – Dr. Martha Lauzen's 2009 Celluloid Ceiling Report |date=28 February 2009 |url=http://awfj.org/2009/02/28/women-on-film-women-on-film-martha-lauzens-2009-celluloid-ceiling-report-jennifer-merin-reports/ |publisher=Alliance of Women Film Journalists |access-date=20 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726082846/http://awfj.org/2009/02/28/women-on-film-women-on-film-martha-lauzens-2009-celluloid-ceiling-report-jennifer-merin-reports/ |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> Female directors fall from a low 9% in 2008, to a meager 7%. [[Warner Brothers Pictures]] and [[Paramount Pictures]] did not release a single film directed by a woman.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dargis |first=Manohla |title=Women in the Seats but Not Behind the Camera |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/movies/13dargis.html |access-date=April 20, 2011 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 10, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111202054901/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/movies/13dargis.html |archive-date=December 2, 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* '''2010:''' A study carried out by the [[USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism|Annenberg School for Communication]] and the [[Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media|Geena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media]] finds that male characters outnumber female characters by 2.42 to one in top-grossing American films.
* '''2010:''' Ex-Board Member [[Leslie Hoffman]] successfully fights to get Disability Health Plans for two stuntmen and a reimbursement for a disabled stuntwoman.