It's so bad. I've always hated hearing about this kind of stuff, but my girlfriend is a filmmaker who's just started working union gigs so I'm hearing about a lot of this first-hand now too. It's really fucking tough because I want to be happy for her working in the industry that she's worked so long to get in... but I also know it's virtually guaranteed that she's going to be sexually harassed by her bosses and that HR is completely useless and often in on the harassment as well. There's already been a few minor things I'm not OK with, so I'm hoping all this attention is going to cause people to straighten up a bit.
Also, what Inviso said. I'm curious to see if/when more stories come out from other areas with huge gender disparities... like game development...
Someone came out with a story from Naughty Dog recently, but ND/Sony instantly shrugged it off with a pretty shitty statement. Then a day or so later a reporter told her own story of being harassed at ND but nothing else has come of either situation. Neither victim named names in their situations though so I don't think much else will happen there. ---
