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Women Working in Television Debate

17 March 10

In the last three years, over 5000 women have left their jobs in the TV sector. On 17 March 2010, MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival and BAFTA hosted a panel debate to explore a distrubing trend.

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Women in Film and TV, is the premier membership organisation for women working in creative media in the UK, and part of an international network of more than10,000 women worldwide. WFTV run a mentoring scheme to support the development of women working in film and TV. For more details and to apply click here

Women in TV: Panel Debate at BAFTA Headquarters tv festival logo Large Blue

Watch TV industry experts explore the issues concerning women working in the television industry today.

Presentation: Kate O’Connor, Executive Director of Policy & Development (Deputy CEO) Skillset

Panel Chair: Journalist Kate Bulkley.

Panel Members: Rebecca Barrie of The Cavendish Psychotherapy Practice, Jay Hunt, Controller at BBC1, Kate Kinninmont, Chief Executive at Women in Film and Television, Camilla Lewis, Head of Factual Features at talkbackTHAMES, Anne Morrison Director at BBC Academy and Simon Shaps, Chairman of Mercury Media and the National Film & Television School.

Women in TV: Is is a Young Girls Game?

MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival and BAFTA interviewed a selection of women currently working in the television sector. Find out more aboutn their experiences of working as women in the UK television industry.

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  • Find out more about the 2010 MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival

pdf Download Kate O'Connor's Women in TV indroductory speech (529 KB)

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  • Guardian: TV industry a hostile place for working mothers

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