20. Sound 🎶
Variety.com wrote about this study that you can directly find here. It was completed in 2019 by USC Annenberg as part of their Inclusion Initiative.
I enjoyed the visuals in their report quite a bit, but I wanted to reimagine this stat in music notes. First to fit the prompt better, and also to really show what these low percentages look like.
Source: "Inclusion in the Recording Studio?" uscanneberg.org
I looked into this a bit more, and came across this Forbes article, “These Are 3 Of The Biggest Drivers Of Gender Inequality In Music”
Sexual harassment
Ageism
Male dominated resources
I think this whole concept is important to reflect on because music has such a large influence on our lives, whether we notice it or not. With this lack of female voices, we’re all receiving lyrics, themes, etc told mostly by the male perspective.
