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Report compiled and produced by Lara Joannides, Nina Goswami, and Angela Henshall

50:50 The Equality Project team: Nina Goswami, Lara Joannides, Angela Henshall, Julia Walker, Sharmin Rahman, Ros Atkins, Sean Dilley, Chris Pike and Sarah Holmes

Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Data Journalism: Alison Benjamin, Becky Dale and Robert Cuffe

Report designed by Gurpreet Renoata

Special thanks to Tim Davie, Bob Shennan, Phil Harrold, Dixi Stewart, Joanne Cayford, Charlotte Moore, Fran Unsworth, Rhodri Talfan Davies, June Sarpong, Miranda Wayland, Frances Weil, Katie Lloyd, Alex Jones, Caz Brett, Charlie Brown, Chris Hutchinson, Chris Lismore, Clive Myrie, Emma Purchon, Gavin Allen, Greg Price, Hannah Birch, John House, Kim Walsh, Laura Stone, Liz Gibbons, Lorraine Edwards, Lynn Aglionby, Mariam Ali, Matthew Hunter, Mauro Galluzzo, Natalie Christian, Oscar Schafer, Paul Mulligan, Pavail Aqeel, Rachael Ward, Rhona De La Mar, Rob Cooper, Robert Timothy, Rob Unsworth, Sarah Lambley, Sarah Ward-Lilley, Simon Pitt, Daniel Weber, Tash Pappas, Vanessa Scott, Vivian Schiller, and the 50:50 Champions.

Tailored approach

What teams count depends on their output. As a result, data from different teams is not always directly comparable and each team aims to improve upon its own performance.

Datasets

Some teams record multiple aspects of their output and submit separate figures for each measure. Each measure is one dataset.

Consistency Challenge

The Consistency Challenge target was to achieve 50% women contributors in at least three months from October 2020 to March 2021, and at least 45% women in the other months. Whilst the majority of teams submit monthly figures, a number file 50:50 data by series, by quarter, or annually depending on their programme makeup or broadcast schedule.

Only teams who filed data each month for the six months from October 2020 to March 2021 were considered eligible for the Consistency Challenge. The same conditions were applied to teams who had filed every month from October 2019 to March 2020 to provide a fair comparison.

Monitoring gender identity

Content-makers monitor the gender identity of their contributors with the aim of featuring at least 50% women. They do not monitor whether a contributor’s gender differs from their sex registered at birth.

Where possible, teams will also monitor the proportion of contributors who identify as non-binary or genderqueer in order to improve their representation of all genders.

Monitoring disability and ethnicity

Teams monitoring disability and/or ethnicity representation in their content tailor the implementation of 50:50’s three core principles in several ways.

Some teams collect simplified data on the overall representation of ethnic minority and/or disabled contributors. Others collect more detailed data, breaking the categories down further into groups that are relevant to that output’s target audience demographic. This data is not reported to 50:50 The Equality Project, but is used by the team to better inform their editorial decisions.

The majority of teams are continuing to monitor by perception, relying on any publicly-disclosed information about a contributor. In certain cases where content-makers have direct access to every contributor, they will record how contributors self-identify with the use of diversity forms.

The methods for monitoring and data capture comply with UK Data Protection Law.

Targets

In general, Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú teams works towards the Corporation’s diversity targets of 50% women, 20% Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and 12% disabled representation. International, regional and local teams adjust those targets in line with their particular audience demographics.