Despite an increased conversation around the gender disparity within country music, female voices make up only 10 percent of "country music culture," a new study finds. That number represents the ...
The year 2018 was not a good year for country women, and Billboard's year-end charts prove it. On the singles- and songs-related charts, there's not a single solo female country artist in sight until ...
A version of this post originally appeared on the author’s blog, The Illiterate. Remember last fall, when it looked like women, for the first time since the late ’90s, were taking over the pop charts?
From September 3, 2016, to September 16, 2017, no solo women scored a No. 1 single in the U.S. Almost coinciding with the beginnings of the Trump era, this was the longest stretch of No. 1 singles ...
Female artists are increasing their presence on popular music charts, but representation behind the scenes is still an uphill battle. The latest findings of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s ...
Members of the new nonprofit took part in an American Pavilion panel in which producer Carol Polakoff promised the new organization would be "revolutionary, paradigm-changing." By Gregg Kilday ...
The vast majority of nonprofit leaders are white men. Some simple math indicates then that women of color within the sector face twice the chance of being discriminated against, as racial and gender ...
Garth Brooks’ recent country radio station launch is all about leveling the playing field for artists, giving big time airtime to those who may not have landed a major label. The Big 615, in ...