Quantifying women marginalisation in Ibero-American film culture during the first half of XX^th century: a quantitative proposal based on network science

07/24/2023
by   Ainamar Clariana-Rodagut, et al.
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The research presented here uses the tools of Social Network Analysis to empirically show a socio-cultural phenomenon already addressed by the social sciences and history namely: the historical marginalisation of women in the field of cinema. The novelty of our approach lies in the use of a large amount of heterogeneous historical data. On the one hand, we built a network of interactions between people involved in the film field in Ibero-America during the first half of the twentieth century. On the other hand, we propose a k-core decomposition and a multi-layered analysis, as a quantitative way to study the position of women within the cultural melieu. After conducting our analysis, we concluded that women were mostly situated in the outer k-shells of the empirical network, and their distribution was not uniform across the k-shells. From a qualitative perspective, these results can be interpreted as the consequence of the lack of evidence of the participation of women in the public sphere.

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