Update: Gender as represented in spec script sales

Yesterday I posted this:

Kudos to Susana Orozco who went through every single transaction in The Definitive Spec Script Sales List from 1991–2012 and discovered this:

The story has now been picked up by TheWrap.

We present the numbers to contribute information to an ongoing, important conversation about diversity on the creative side of the entertainment business.

Note: The numbers in the infographic reflect the total of female writers involved in spec script sales year to year. They differ from the actual number of spec script deals because many scripts involve teams with two, three, and sometimes even four writers.

Here are the numbers of spec script sales as reflected in The Definitive Spec Script Sales List 1991–2012:

1991: 28

1992: 40

1993: 89

1994: 103

1995: 172

1996: 155

1997: 140

1998: 110

1999: 83

2000: 92

2001: 101

2002: 114

2003: 88

2004: 76

2005: 58

2006: 60

2007: 65

2008: 87

2009: 67

2010: 55

2011: 110

2012: 99

Total Spec Script Sales 1991–2012: 1,992

Total Male Writers: 2,230

Total Female Writers: 336

As I always note, tracking spec script sales is not an exact science. But with what we do here as well as DoneDealPro, Jason Scoggins, the trades, and other sources, these figures represent a reliable overall historical take on the spec script market.

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