Creative Access research from 2024 found that upper middle-class execs were unaware of working class underrepresentation in senior roles. Meanwhile, three quarters of respondents said they agreed it is harder for working-class people to land a role in the creative industries.
“Class is the one area where we really aren’t making progress in the creative industries,” admits Bibi Hilton, past CEO of Creative Access. “It’s worrying that soft social identifiers are still influencing class prejudice and biases.”
Comments Stephen Lepitak in ‘Adland Has a Blind Spot: The Working Class’, Creative Salon. Read the full article here.
