Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Recommendations

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  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)

HEARD Collective (live curators)

HearHer Festival (festival)

Illuminate Women's Music (classical concerts)

Let's Be The Change (conferences)

PlainsightSOUND (black composers)

Re:dress Women 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)

Women in Music UK (Proms analysis)

Women of Note (composer resource)

WXMB2 (music events)

 Analogue Ladies (Facebook)

EQ50 (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)

SISU (Facebook)

Soundgirls (USA)

TechDissect (UK)

The Female DIY Musician (UK)

Women in Dance Music Collective (UK)

Women in Music Tech (USA)

Yorkshire Sound Women (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)

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)

UK Music Diversity Taskforce

Urban Development (urban music)

Women in Music Awards (Music Week)

Youth Music Girls Rock London

  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

British Council (music team)

Creative Industries Policy Centre 

DDCMS Key Findings 2016

Equality Act 2010

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)

World Economic Forum 

 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

Parental Pay Equality 

Parents and Carers in Performing Arts 

Women in Advertising and Communications

Women in Film & TV(Canada)

Women in TV and Film

  ACAS (Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service) 

Creating an Inclusive Culture (webinar)

Ellpha (data & AI analysis)

Fawcett Society (gender equality for women)

Feminist Current

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)

Women on boards

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)

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 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"
 

García-González, J., Forcén, P. and Jimenez-Sanchez, M. (2019) "Men and women differ in their perception of gender bias"

Gross, S. (2017) "Let’s Change the Record: Women Only Studio Lock-in: An experiment in audio education"

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

across 600 Popular Songs"