Not to sound like a broken record, but we have a long way to go in the fight for gender equality in the music industry. Earlier this month, the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released its annual report on music creator demographics, and it revealed little progress for women in popular music in 2020. In fact, the number of women writing and performing hit songs has decreased since 2019. The report found women made up only 20.2% percent of the artists behind 2020’s top songs (down from 22.5% in 2019 and below the nine-year average of 21.6%).
To celebrate the women in music who are defying these stats and moving the industry in the right direction, and in honor of Women’s History Month, Samantha Ouellette, Create & Cultivate’s general manager and unofficial C&C office DJ, curated a WFH playlist. Spanning legends by the likes of Nina Simone, Stevie Nicks, and Dolly Parton to up-and-coming artists (and recent Create & Cultivate 100 honorees!) Remi Wolf, Audrey Mika, and Tayla Parx, trust us when we say you’re going to want to put this playlist on repeat during 9-to-5. Grab your headphones and scroll on to press play now.
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