Facebook Twitter Instagram It’s been a busy old… …12 months at Share My Telly Job.. 2018 started off with a bang – organising the flexible working event which we hosted in May.  I’m delighted to report that we’ve (finally!) cut together a ‘best bits’ from the evening so we can

Two events this past weekend have been about women: the vigils that were held across the country to protest the murder of Sarah Everard, and Mother’s Day. One a howl of pain that STILL we cannot be safe from male violence, the other a benign marking of the sanctity of

Bectu’s recent #unseenonscreen (https://unseenonscreen.wixsite.com/unseenonscreen) anti-bullying campaign has thrown up a long list of accounts of unacceptable behaviour. Sexual harassment, overwork, micro-managing, poor contracts, lack of guidance, disregard for junior staff… And yet, sadly, what struck us here at SMTJ is how nothing in the submissions felt like a surprise. All

Written by Dr Rowan Aust, Academic Consultant and Co-Director at SMTJ Today is Equal Pay Day. It is the day as the Fawcett Society calculates [https://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/news/the-fawcett-society-announces-date-of-equal-pay-day-2020], that women stop earning relative to men. Which means it’s the day when women start working for free compared to men doing the same job,

I’ve just finished my first job since the COVID pandemic began – and its been the first time I’ve worked full-time in 5 years, give or take the odd weeks here and there. The current global pandemic is the only reason this opportunity to work full-time, at home, came my

I very vividly remember being told during the early years of my television career that “there are two types of women over 35 in this industry, the ‘telly widows’ and the ones who leave”. I was a 22 year-old researcher at the time and whilst the idea of being a

There has been so much bad press surrounding TV in recent weeks, about the working culture and the treatment of people who make it. The Mental Health crisis was clearly shown through the findings in the Film and TV Charity’s recent industry survey which produced horrifying results regarding the state

Long-time job-sharing Senior Casting Producers Karen Browne and Amy Willetts tell SMTJ about what makes their job-sharing partnership a success.    How did the job-share come about? Karen: We first started job sharing on Snow Sex and Suspicious Parents.  I had worked with Amy a long time ago and had got

Last night was brilliant! The room was full, the atmosphere was bright and the panel inspired our audience from the start. A huge thank you to Line, Emma, Jonathan, Maria and Anna. We set off on this campaign to really try and increase the confidence to employers to give flexible