53 per cent ‘suggested they had seen evidence of discrimination over the course of their careers’.

Only 16 per cent of working film writers in the UK are female, and 14 per cent of prime-time TV is female-written, according to a new, independent report commissioned by the writers’ union WGGB.

The report, ‘Gender Inequality and Screenwriters’, covers ten years and reveals that the number of TV shows and films written by women in the UK flatlined during that period, with no consistent improvement in gender representation.