Discrimination in the music industry
A survey by the British Independent Society of Musicians (ISM) shows that around two thirds of employees in the music industry experience discrimination. Women suffer the most.
The aim of the report "Dignity at work 2: Discrimination in the music sector" was to document the cultural change in the music industry since 2018. In fact, two thirds of respondents stated that they had experienced discrimination in the workplace, 70 percent of them in the past five years. This represents an increase of almost half. Four-fifths of discrimination affected women.
According to the study team, the results suggest that discrimination is often used as a means of maintaining power and control over others, especially younger women seeking to advance their careers. Three quarters of the discriminators were people with seniority or opinion leaders, just under half were colleagues and a quarter were third parties (the public, customers and so on).
Incidents are not reported because those affected believe that such behavior is an integral part of the industry culture, because there is no office that would accept such reports or because there is a fear of losing one's job.
Link to the study:
https://www.ism.org/images/files/ISM-Dignity-2-report.pdf
