Music as an industry, let us think in a feminine perspective:

Let’s bring an international overview

We can better analyze and bring an international perspective to the subject. If you go by the numbers you see that the women artists are much less compared to men. But do we really listen to women and their perspectives: there is something wrong in the music world. It is a men’s club where women are still rarely allowed to play. Of course, it is important that we investigate gender relations in the sector , but figures are not everything.

But what is the impact that it can bring? Is there some influence of music history? May be pioneers who helped define their respective genres? But for each of these figures, there were perhaps ten other women who could have played a huge role in folk, pop or rock ‘n’ roll, but never got the chance to do so. And that just because of their womanhood.

Freedom of choice and accessibility

Equality is also a result of freedom of choice and accessibility. But we do not achieve equality by pretending that gender does not exist, but by just having an eye for it. It is not because women are not explicitly left out – a programmer will no longer say out loud in 2020 that he does not want women on his stage. We have come that far – that women have access to the same opportunities as men. In order to achieve that equality, we must just listen to what it means to be a woman in this sector. If you don’t want to name gender, it’s because gender doesn’t matter to you.

Men cannot experience what it is like to enter a music store as a woman where the staff stares at you, how a technician on stage takes your instrument out of your hands to just sound check for you. Boys cannot experience how a girl absolutely want a guitar as a teenager. But your parents persuade you to choose the piano as a girl. How you as a fan have to prove that you really know the genre and you are not there because of your boyfriend. And how you no longer go forward during the concert of your favorite artist because you no longer want to use the fast songs constantly pushing your buttocks by random hands. Stories of sexual harassment and violence that we constantly hear from the women at gigs and concerts, but that are rarely taken seriously.

Achieving a male-female ratio shall not be the goal

Achieving a male-female ratio is not the goal purely for the sake of it. As women, they don’t want the same number of positions because it would be fair. However the one-sided male perspective must be broken if we want real change. Quotas, when used properly, can be a catalyst for change that breaks the norm?

Of course, we shall not make female-fronted a genre and artists, we shall value artists for their work and not just for their gender. It is therefore important that these initiatives are by and for women and not just as a marketing campaign or just to generate press attention. Music is emotion. And certainly, we cannot measure it. We shall appreciate the emotions and experiences of women when they talk about music. May be think of few concerts that had an impact on you personally just because the performance is by female artists. Their representation is impactful!!!