Anecdotal

THE PAST

"There is an infamous rejection letter that has been circling the internet for the last eight years. 'Dear Miss Ford,' the 1938 letter to a would-be animation trainee begins..."

~ https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/creative-work-in-connection-with-preparing-the-cartoons?utm_term=.efbavkkAO#.umGd2RRA1

NOW 

"Fogel, who specialized in crowds animation at Pixar, said the studio is 'very clique-y in general.' She described herself as 'a bit aggressive for a female' and said she fit in with her mostly male co-workers because of that. She felt she got preferential treatment because of her ability to fit in to 'the drinking culture' and hold forth on whiskey. Other women, she said, could be put off by the 'culture of bros.'”

 https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/creative-work-in-connection-with-preparing-the-cartoons?utm_term=.efbavkkAO#.umGd2RRA1

NOW 

“'They’re really good people, and they would be horrified to learn that they’re excluding people,' said a production manager who worked at Pixar and who, along with Anastasia, initially wanted her name on the record and later asked to be anonymous. The production manager made it clear that she loved Pixar and was worried that her words would be perceived as derogatory, although the most divisive thing she said was that she had worried about losing female artists from the studio and proactively sought to mentor them. Several other women in animation noted that it’s a small industry and they didn’t want to be seen as troublemakers — as Chapman put it, 'There are those of us who are free to speak a little more abrasively about how things are going.'

But there are many who are not."

~  https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/creative-work-in-connection-with-preparing-the-cartoons?utm_term=.efbavkkAO#.umGd2RRA1