Women’s International Music Network (WiMN) Founder Laura B. Whitmore addressed the demeaning effects of sexism in the music industry in her latest column with U.K.-based music industry trade publication, MI Pro.
Whitmore mentions the cringe-inducing ads featuring half-naked women, editors preceding the word musician with the word “female,” yet not doing the same with “male,” and more. She also gives advice on what to do instead.
Read the full article at www.mi-pro.com.
Fall Silent Auction
I’ve had music store clerks look at me incredulously when I asked to try out a guitar. “YOU play guitar?” I don’t shop there anymore.
I wish publishers would read your words and take them to heart.
I used to not know how to change my strings on my guitar. Whenever I went into a music shop, all the men behind the counter would take one look at me with my guitar and immediately assume that I came in to have my strings changed. The fact that they assumed that I couldn’t do it myself made me learn how.