Multicultural children's publisher Lee & Low Books surveyed staff at 34 American publishers, including Penguin Random House and Hachette, as well as eight review journals, to establish a baseline to measure diversity among publishing staff.
As the diversity group Writers of Colour has highlighted with an infographic from Lee and Low books, in the last 85 years of the Oscars, nominated producers were 98% white, writers were 98% white, actors were 88% white, actresses were 88% white and directors were 99% male.
For Black History Month, Lee & Low Books, a multicultural children's book publisher, offers helpful book recommendations.
Lee and Low Books is a multicultural children's book publisher that suggests books for kids in pre-K through high school.
Highlighting these facts and more, an infographic by Lee & Low Books serves as a reminder of the staggering diversity gap that still exists in the entertainment industry.
Is that the message that we want our children to absorb?" The Emmy Awards infographic, which has gone viral this week, is part of Lee & Low Books' "Diversity Gap" study series.
