By Etan Vlessing. Canada Bureau Chief. Women made up Ahead of the Grammys , the new report from Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative underlined how gains made by women have only held, and not accelerated. For example, there was no major ground made by women producers in as they only accounted for 5. The percentage of underrepresented artists in , at And only In fact, it is the number of men that has declined while the number of women in was consistent with prior years.
This suggests that it is fluctuations in the number of men, not gains for women that is driving these findings. Smith said in a statement. The percentage of women songwriters in was Last year, the number of women of color working as songwriters dipped, while the number of white women songwriters increased. Just over half, or 54 percent, of songs in featured at least one woman songwriter, little changed from Smith added.
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