Below are over 100 extremely useful recommendations on everything to do with equality, diversity and inclusion in music and the creative industries. This list has taken many years to compile and it is a pleasure to share it with you. If you have any great recommendations to add to this list - please do let me know!
Ambache (composers)
BBC Radio 3 International Women's Day
Bechdel Sound Test (events)
ComposeHer (classical composers)
Donne Drama Musica (record label)
Get In Her Ears (radio station)
GirlsiRate (songwriter development)
Girls Rock London (girls music making)
HEARD Collective (live curators)
HearHer Festival (festival)
Illuminate Women's Music (classical concerts)
Let's Be The Change (conferences)
PlainsightSOUND (black composers)
Saffron Records (record label)
Scottish Women Inventing Music
Sistafest (festival)
The Cat's Mother (mentoring)
The Daffodil Perspective (radio show)
Time to Modulate (theatre composers)
Women Connect (safer spaces)
WomeninCtrl (music biz)
Women in Music UK (Proms analysis)
Women of Note (composer resource)
WXMB2 (music events)
Analogue Ladies (Facebook)
EQ50 (UK)
Equalize Music (UK)
Female Pressure (USA/Global)
Feminist Sound Collectives (International)
Geek Girl Meetup (UK)
Gender Amplified (USA)
Her Noise (UK sound archive)
In the Key of She (UK)
Many, Many Women (International)
Make it Eql (USA)
Music Production for Women (UK/AUS)
Normal Not Novelty (Facebook)
Omnii Collective (UK)
Producer Girls (UK)
SheProducer (UK)
SISU (Facebook)
Soundgirls (USA)
TechDissect (UK)
Women in Dance Music Collective (UK)
Women in Music Tech (USA)
Women Produce Music (UK)
All Female Jazz Orchestra (USA)
Alliance of Women Film Composers (global)
Berklee University (music research)
Book More Women (US festivals)
ComposerHer (composers)
Curating Diversity (Italy)
Fair Ple (Traditional Irish)
Girls Rock Dublin (Ireland)
Institute for Musicals Arts (US)
Ladyfest Festivals (International list)
She is the Music (mentoring)
She Said So (International network)
She Shreds (guitarists)
Song Data (Canada)
Songstress Hall of Fame (USA)
Women in Jazz Association (USA)
Women in Live Music (EU)
Women in Music (USA)
Women of Nashville (USA)
Attitude is Everything (disability access in music)
Chineke! (racial diversity in classical music)
Grammy Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce (US)
Help Musicians (mental health for musicians)
IMPALA Diversity & Inclusion Charter (EU)
Incorporated Society of Musicians (Dignity at Work campaign)
Institute for Composer Diversity (US)
Keychange (50/50 campaign)
MOBO (urban music)
PRS Foundation (Women Make Music)
Re:balance (Festival Republic)
Sound and Music (classical music)
Urban Development (urban music)
Women in Music Awards (Music Week)
APRA women screen composer research (Australian Collecting Society)
Bachtrack (classical music)
Does classical music have a gender problem? (The Guardian)
GameSoundCon (US)
Gender in America's top orchestras (Suby Ramen)
Gender inequality in the creative industries (The Conversation)
Gender pay gap for freelance musicians (Honeybook)
Sexism in dance music (Vice)
Tracking gender at festivals (Pitchfork)
Why are there so few women at the top of Classical Music? (Seattle Times)
Women as gatekeepers in the music industry (Billboard)
Women in jazz (Biddy Healy)
A Seat at the Table (Amy Raphael)
Anything for a Hit (Dorothy Carvello)
Class, Control and Classical Music (Anna Bull)
Frock Rock (Mavis Bayton)
Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry (Kristin Lieb)
Gender in Music (Marion Leonard)
Music, Gender, Education (Lucy Green)
Pink Noises (Tina Rodgers)
Sexing the Groove (Sheila Whiteley)
She-Bop, the History Of Women in Rock n Roll (Lucy O'Brien)
Sounds and Sweet Airs (Anna Beer)
Arts Council Creative Case for Diversity
Creative Industries Policy Centre
Equality and Human Rights Commission
European Institute for Gender Equality
Government Gender Pay Gap Reporting
NESTA (measuring gender imbalances)
Office of National Statistics (people in work)
The Creative Industries Council
United Nations (gender equality)
BAFTA (diversity requirements)
British Film Institute (inclusivity strategy)
Create London (artists in London)
Creative Industries Federation (diversity report)
Creative United (social impact in arts)
Directors UK (gender report)
Equity (Making an Appearance report)
Free The Work (international)
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Parents and Carers in Performing Arts
Women in Advertising and Communications
Women in Film & TV(Canada)
ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service)
Creating an Inclusive Culture (webinar)
Ellpha (data & AI analysis)
Fawcett Society (gender equality for women)
Gender statistics in education
Gingerbread (single parent network)
Inclusive Leadership (slides)
Legal fact sheet on recruitment
Pivotal Ventures (gender philanthropy)
The Dots (freelance creative network)
The Resolution Foundation (living wage)
Working families - flexible working
YESS Law (legal employment advice)
Bias blocks path to management (Bloomberg)
Dads and childcare (Aviva)
Greedy jobs impact the gender pay gap (Forbes)
High achieving women (Harvard Business Review)
Hiring in tech today (Website Planet)
How Britain hides sex discrimination cases (Bloomberg)
Remove bias from interview process (The Guardian)
Retaining women workers (Baseline)
The importance of retaining female employees (Women of HR)
Third of men take paternity leave (HR News)
Why women quit (Fortune)
Women in the workplace(McKinsey)
Women in the workplace 2020 (Novoresume)
Women paid £260,000 less than men (The Guardian)
Class Questions: Feminist Answers (Joan Acker)
Equal (Carrie Gracie)
Gender (Harriet Bradley)
Inferior: How Science got Women Wrong(Angela Saini)
Intersectionality (Patricia Collins and Sirma Bilge)
Invisible Women (Caroline Criado Perez)
Subtle Sexism (Nijole Benokraitis)
The Class Ceiling (Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison)
The Dynamics of Managing Diversity (Gill Kirton and Anne-Marie Greene)
The Second Sex (Simone de Beauvoir)
The Value of Difference (Pearn Kandola)
Trans Power (Juno Roche)
What Works Gender Equality By Design (Iris Bohnet)
Acker, J (2009) "From Glass Ceiling to Inequality Regimes"
Comber, C., Hargreaves, D. and Colley, A. (1993). “Girls, Boys and
Technology in Music Education”
Diehl, A. (2016) "Making the Invisible Visible: Gender-Based Leadership Barriers"
Scharff, C. (2015). “Blowing Your Own Trumpet, Exploring the gendered
dynamics of self-promotion in the classical music profession”.
Smith, S., Choueiti, M. and Pieper, K. (2018). “Inclusion in the Recording
Studio, Gender and Race/Ethnicity of Artists, Songwriters & Producers
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