Summary
March is Women’s History Month; an annual declared month to celebrate the countless accomplishments of women in history and today.
Today is 2021 International Women’s Day carrying the theme: ‘
Choose to Challenge’. Let’s hear from Margherita Fontana (Global Strategic Planning & Governance Procurement Director and Chair of Dow s Global Women s Inclusion Network) and Howard Ungerleider (Dow President and Chief Financial Officer and executive sponsor Dow s Women s Inclusion Network), how we can call out gender bias and promote equality, in a global effort to help advance an inclusive world through the empowerment of women.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 11:30am
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Meet the women who want Sutherland to take off By Ali Morrison Published: 07:00, 08 March 2021
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It is International Womenâs Day today (Monday, March 8) - a day designated to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.
To mark the day, the Northern Times features here a team of north Sutherland women crofters who are working together to improve opportunities for communities in the area.
They are the women who lead Melness Croftersâ Estate (MCE) - chairwoman Dorothy Pritchard; secretary Wilma Robertson; directors Karen Kelly and Kirsteen Mackay.
Rolling Stone Women in Music Dwindled in 2020
USC’s annual study finds that the number of women writing and performing hit songs became even more sparse last year, narrowing to as low as 2% in the producing field
By Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Same song, different verse quite literally, it turns out. On Monday (March 8th), the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Institute released its latest report on music creator demographics, finding that women still make up meager percentages of artists, songwriters, and producers on music charts and award-nomination slates, marking “no meaningful and sustained increase” in the number of female musicians in the male-governed music-making business in close to a decade.
Female artists struggle to make gains in music, study finds
Lucas Shaw, Bloomberg
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The Spotify logo is displayed on a smartphone on Oct. 7, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Gabby Jones.
Women are songwriters or producers on only a small portion of the most popular songs released each year and have made no significant gains in representation over the past nine years even as the industry grows more diverse in other ways.
That s the finding of a report by Dr. Stacy L. Smith, a University of Southern California professor who studies representation in the entertainment industry. Female artists made just 22% of the top 100 songs released each year between 2012 and 2020, and a far smaller percentage of women served as producers and writers, according to the study released Monday, which was funded by Spotify Technology.
Women fell back in race for inclusion in 2020 pop charts Laura Snapes
The music industry continues to marginalise women, according to the latest instalment of a landmark US survey on representation in pop.
In 2020, women were outnumbered on the US Billboard charts by men at a ratio of 3.9 to 1, according to the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative’s annual study of the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart.
Women including Dua Lipa, Maren Morris, Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion made up 20.2% of the 173 artists that appeared on the chart in 2020, dropping from 22.5% in 2019 – and a high of 28.1% in 2016.
“It is International Women’s Day everywhere, except for women in music, where women’s voices remain muted,” said Dr Stacy L Smith, who led the survey. “While women of colour comprised almost half of all women artists in the nine years examined, there is more work needed to reach inclusion in this business.”