Despite music industry organisations having pledged to improve racial representation in their ranks after last year’s Blackout Tuesday protest, a new report shows that in the US, leadership positions still overwhelmingly favour white men.
The University of Southern California’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that among 4,060 executives across 119 companies and six categories – music groups, labels, publishers, radio, streaming and live music promotion – white male executives outnumbered Black women by 17.7 to one.
Just 13.9% of executives were from underrepresented racial groups, and 4.2% were Black. Women accounted for 13.9% of such roles.
The report showed that the more senior a role, the less likely it was to be held
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