Culture, with cinema and theater as the greatest exponents, they are not fighting the battle against gender inequality. They also assure it Mabel Lozano, CEO of Mafalda Entertainment, and María Ángeles Fayos, president of the Valencian Association of Theater and Circus Companies (AVETID) and Head of Communication of the Olympia Theater, who participated yesterday in the conference Talent Woman, organized by LAS PROVINCIAS.
Both professionals confirmed from their own experience and that of their colleagues the difficulties that women face in reaching management positions in the cultural industry. «When I wanted to tell how women were captured and exploited in brothels, nobody wanted to give me the opportunity to record this. Nobody cared, so 16 years ago I had to set up my own production company “, says Lozano, who emphasizes that most of her colleagues have also had to create their own label due to the wall they run into in many production companies. “We find many executives in the chains with the phrase ‘Mabel to see if you change the subject’, because they understand that it is a woman’s cinema and that is not the case. There is simply good cinema and bad cinema ”, he points out.
In this sense, Fayos highlights that “There is still a lot of women” in management positions. «When I started I realized that they welcomed me with affection but then they took off their jackets and talked about what was important, ”he says. Along the same lines, Lozano recalls that “This year for the first time the Goya of photography has been won by a woman and it has been thanks to quotas”. According to the director of Mafalda Entertainment, the quotas to access management positions “are necessary in the short term” that help to combat structural and historical discrimination.
Motherhood is a key point that also explains the construction of the glass ceiling. «Motherhood affects a lot and makes it more difficult to maintain an artistic career. Many times we put private life before professional life ”, adds Fayos, who makes a self-criticism about the sector. “I believed that we did everything well in the cultural world, but without realizing it we also repeated clichés and we did not comply any more on gender issues,” he says. Lozano insists that productions are made by men and women so that cinema is “plural and diverse.”
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