Music industry acts to address gender imbalance

A music industry peak body has responded to two recent reports highlighting gender inequity in the sector with plans to move towards parity.

1 Aug 2017

Richard Watts

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Performing Arts

Australian musician Courtney Barnett performs live on stage at Down The Rabbit Hole Festival in Beuningen, the Netherlands, 2016. Photo by Rene Oonk via Shutterstock.com.

The University of Sydney this week released a new report into gender equity in the Australian music industry.

Entitled Skipping a beat: Assessing the state of gender equality in the Australian music industry, the report found that inequity was entrenched across the live music sector.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts