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Music has a gender problem — why do women bear the burden of fixing it?

Tatiana Cirisano

13 Mar 2024

music industry

gender equity

gender equality

On International Womens’ Day, MIDiA published the fourth annual edition of BE THE CHANGE: Gender equity in music , in collaboration with TuneCore and Believe. We surveyed more than 4,100 music creators and professionals from 133 countries, as well as conducting interviews, to learn about their challenges in the industry.

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‘What’ it means to be a creator is changing dramatically. Why isn’t the ‘who’?

Tatiana Cirisano

9 Nov 2023

TuneCore

Believe

women in music

The year is 2023: Singers are turning their voices into playable instruments, bands are performing as holograms, entirely virtual artists are hitting the market, and one can spin up a finished song with 20 minutes and an iPhone.

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If Web3 is so forward-thinking, why is it so male dominated?

Tatiana Cirisano

28 Feb 2022

diversity

women in music

gender equality

Strike up a five-minute conversation with someone in the Web3 space, and any combination of the words “forward-thinking”, “revolutionary”, and “equitable” is bound to come up. Many proponents of NFTs, DAOs, the metaverse, and other Web3 concepts seek to use decentralisation to dismantle old systems and bring power to the people — and their intentions are, for the most part, good.

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