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Girls That Create LLC
Girls That Create (GTC) provides parenting resources for raising creative girls while also encouraging greater female representation across the arts. We strongly believe that the arts set culture. Although women currently comprise half of the U.S.… Girls That Create (GTC) provides parenting resources for raising creative girls while also encouraging greater female representation across the arts. We strongly believe that the arts set culture. Although women currently comprise half of the U.S. population, there is underrepresentation for women behind the scenes creating the media we all consume. To address gender imbalances, women must have a seat at decision-making tables as creators and leaders.
Erin Prather Stafford
Our Story
In early 2019, I read in a study that only eight percent of the top 250 films in 2018 were directed by women, a decline from the nine percent recorded in 1998. As the Executive Producer of the PBS documentary film "WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of… In early 2019, I read in a study that only eight percent of the top 250 films in 2018 were directed by women, a decline from the nine percent recorded in 1998. As the Executive Producer of the PBS documentary film "WONDER WOMEN! The Untold Story of American Superheroines" this news was crushing. I began looking through other creative fields such as music, visual arts, and news bylines. Over and over, women were woefully unrepresented as creators of media we all consume. With my MA in gender studies and as the mother of two girls, I thought, what if I began a website for the parents and caregivers of creative girls? A resource for families similar to STEM programs targeting girls, except this platform focuses on the arts? The Girls That Create website went live in March 2019.
