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White male dominated line-ups remain a serious issue throughout the festival landscape...

45 major international music festivals have signed up to be a part of a new initiative by the PRS foundation which aims to tackle gender...

More details also surface on LA Ibiza Classics date

Pete Tong continued the needed dialogue of diversity and gender equality within electronic dance music during a recent extended interview. The conversation is a continuation...

New festivals to join the cause include Big Day Out, Field Maneuvers, JazzFest Berlin, more...

Over 100 festivals have joined the Keychange pledge, which encourages “festivals to sign up to a 50:50 gender balance pledge by 2022,” according to the...

New manifesto for gender equality in music industry, All Things Equal, to launch with IWD event

Urban Projections, Loraine James, Shannen SP, Girls Don't Sync and Princess Arinola Adegbite are all involved in the launch event

Manchester-based creative music charity Brighter Sound has teamed up with Manchester promoter Submerge to launch a manifesto for equality in the music industry, All Things...

Live Nation reported one of the more significant gender pay gaps at 34.3%

Six major music companies - Universal Music, Warner Music, Sony Music, Spotify, Apple and Live Nation - have reported an average gender pay gap of...

But the Swedish event will not be penalised... 

The founder of women-only festival, Statement, has been found guilty of gender discrimination. 

The event took place in the Swedish city of Gothenburg in August...

A lawsuit issued by a former executive claims “boys’ trips” to strip clubs...

Spotify is being sued for gender discrimination, equal pay violation, and defamation, it has been reported.

Hong Perez, a former sales executive at Spotify, filed...

Keychange has expanded to cover venues, management, broadcasters, orchestras and more... 

Over 250 organisations have pledged to tackle the music industry's gender imbalance. 

The announcement was made by the PRS Foundation, expanding on the Keychange pledge,...

Their aim with 23by23 is to get record labels to commit to achieving at least 23% of women artists on their rosters by 2023

Rebekah and Sydney Blu have teamed up to launch a campaign to encourage record labels to add more women artists to their roster.

23by23's aim...

The film was made over the course of 2019's summer festival season

A New documentary exploring gender imbalance in electronic music is available to watch now.

Filmed over the course of 2019's summer festival season, director Stacey Lee's...

Groundbreaking report on gender disparity in UK dance music published by Jaguar Foundation

The report uses quantitative data from radio airplay and streaming as well as roundtable discussions with key figures

A groundbreaking report on gender disparity has been published by the Jaguar Foundation. Out today (3rd August), ‘Progressing Gender Representation in UK Dance Music' was...

Jaye Ward, Honey Dijon, JD Samson, Mandidextrous and DJ Sprinkles talk gender identity, safe spaces, privilege and the power of the internet...

Words: JOE ROBERTS // Pics: JEF McMAHAN, COMATONSE RECORDINGS

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“Trans is so hot right now,” chuckles Jaye Ward, the Hackney-based DJ whose lineage of...

The Radio 1 DJ's 12-part digital course will offer 1,000 under-18s training in production and more.

Jaguar has launched a new training programme for women and gender minority students entering the music industry. 

A free initiative, Future1000 will see the BBC...

Primavera Sound organisers say they are proof it can easily be done...

With the dust having settled on Primavera's two European festival outings for 2019 in Barcelona and Porto, organisers have begun reflecting on the line-up for...

Charisse Beaumont Black Lives in Music

The organisation wants mandatory annual pay gap reporting to be published alongside commitments to address disparities

The founders of Black Lives in Music (BLiM) have called on UK politicians to intervene and level out gender and ethnicity pay gaps within the...