Best Of: Why Less Than 5% of Producers Are Women

Gender equity in the music industry still has a long way to go. The University of Southern California has been studying inclusion in the recording studio for years. In 2018, it found that out of the songs that made it on Billboard’s year end Hot 100 chart, along with the nominees in top Grammy categories, only 2% of those songs were produced by women. That number only increased to 3.4% in 2022. On this episode, we revisit a story we first aired in 2019. It’s by Contributor Celine Teo-Blockey, who reported on the challenges that Sarah Tudzin of Illuminati Hotties has overcome to become a musician and producer.   https://www.kexp.org/read/2019/11/5/sound-vision-why-only-2-music-producers-are-women/ Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/sound/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.