  The research presented here uses the tools of social network analysis to
empirically show a socio-cultural phenomenon already addressed by the social
sciences and history: the historical marginalisation of women in the field of
cinema. The novelty of our approach lies in the use of a large amount of
heterogeneous historical data. On the one hand, we built a network of
interactions between people involved in the film field in Ibero-America during
the first half of the twentieth century. On the other hand, we propose a
$k$-core decomposition and a multi-layered analysis, as a quantitative way to
study the position of women within the cultural melieu. After conducting our
analysis, we concluded that women were mostly situated in the outer $k$-shells
of the empirical network, and their distribution was not uniform across the
$k$-shells. From a qualitative perspective, these results can be interpreted as
the consequence of the lack of evidence of the participation of women in the
public sphere.
