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Author: Marco Salah El Din Tantawy
Picture Credit: Glauco Canalis
In recent years we’ve seen a lot of criticism about gender and ethnic imbalance in Western music festivals on and off the stage. With the pandemic putting a halt to most festivals, this could be the perfect time to make real changes, especially according to the principles of diversity, inclusion and representation.
In November 2020, the ongoing FACTS survey, conducted by female:pressure, the international network of female, transgender and non-binary artists in the field of electronic music, highlighted that from 2012 to 2019 the proportion of female acts rose from 9.2% to 24,6%. While this could sound like encouraging data, the truth is that there is still a lot of work to do in this direction (male acts are at 65%), considering that meanwhile, not even a massive iconic movement like #MeToo was powerful enough to trigger a deeper discussion about this issue.
Looking at this issue across different countries, it’s evident that inequality is systemic, and that structural sexism generates disparity for female identifying and non-binary artists in festivals as well ...
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