Stephanie McMahon: WWE Making ‘Big Efforts’ To Hire Female Writers

Stephanie McMahon: WWE Making ‘Big Efforts’ To Hire Female Writers

WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon has said that WWE is actively looking to add more female members to its writing team.

Stephanie McMahon didn’t have numbers or statistics, but it obviously doesn’t take a genius to work out that it’s a male-dominated environment, and that’s something she believes is important to change.

Speaking with Digital Spy, McMahon said:

“Hiring in the writing room is really important because it has previously been a fairly male-dominated writing room and there are big efforts right now to change that.

“I don’t have the stats off the top of my head. So I’m not sure how many women we’ve hired since we started but I know it’s several, including a senior ranking VP (Christine Lubrano) who’s in charge of many different aspects of making sure that the creative and partnerships and all lines of business are all working together.

“So there’s a been a huge movement. And for both men and women we are always looking to improve our storylines no matter what and improve our character development.”

McMahon also discussed the importance of the Bayley/Sasha Banks storyline which was one of the biggest parts of WWE programming throughout last year, saying:

“Sasha and Bayley have something so special and so unique and in our business, when you capture chemistry like that, it gives it legs. You have the ability to really build on those stories and deepen them as well.”

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3 years ago by Liam Winnard

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