By Sarah Polus - 01/13/21 06:18 PM EST
Netflix released its first report on diversity and inclusion Wednesday, indicating it has made gains in staff representation in recent years.
Women now make up almost half of Netflix s workforce, with the percentage of female employees increasing 7 percent over a three-year span, from 40 percent in 2017 to 47 percent in 2019, the report shows.
Black employees now make up 8 percent of Netflix s employee base, more than double its 2017 figure. The number of Hispanic employees also increased, from 6 percent to 8.1 percent, according to the analysis.
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In certain categories, however, gains lag behind.
Women still comprise less than under 35 percent of technical jobs at Netflix, and the company s number of Asian employees dropped by 2 percent.
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ABC s The Rookie is leaning into calls for a more nuanced approach to how cops are portrayed: We want to change things for as long as we get to do this show.
When the writing staff of
The Rookie remotely reconvened in June, they weren t exactly sure what to do. Not only were they setting out to make a third season of their ABC drama during a pandemic, they had to break stories for a cop show as countless Americans took to the streets in protest of George Floyd’s murder, days earlier, by Minneapolis police and of the systemic racism that made his tragedy all too common. Writing a police procedural, the bread and butter of broadcast TV, was suddenly quite complicated.