Hollywood has been set under investigation to find out the systemic failure to hire women directors in the film and television industry.
The ACLU of Southern California and the national ACLU Women's Rights Project asked federal and California civil rights agencies to investigate the hiring practices of major Hollywood studios, Fox News reported.
The organizations have compiled statistical evidence of dramatic disparities in the hiring of women and violation of civil rights as presently very few women directors are working than two decades ago.
As per the collected data women represented only 7 percent of directors on the 250 top-grossing films in 2014 that comes out 2 percentage points lower than in 1998.
Ariela Migdal of the ACLU Women's Rights Project said that women directors are not getting a fair opportunity to succeed which is very shameful and unacceptable.
