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Women Are Still Vastly Underrepresented as Music Executives, USC Annenberg Study Finds
The percentage of women in senior executive positions across the music industry has not improved and continue to be dominated by white males.
And against a backdrop of DEI scale-backs in corporate America, the study finds underrepresented racial and ethnic communities hold a small share of the pie at 7.9% of top roles, while only 5.3% were women of color. “In recent years, our work has shown that women and people of color are increasing their presence on the popular charts as artists, but this progress is not matched by the executive ranks that are responsible for the business of music,” said Dr. Smith. “The findings of this study remind us that while progress has been made, ‘good enough’ isn’t enough and we still have much work to do in achieving true equality,” said Andreea Gleeson, Chief Executive Officer, TuneCore (a sponsor of the report, in addition to Believe).
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