The gender wage gap, in general, refers to the difference in earnings between women and men, and for some reason, on average women in virtually every country are paid less than men. This is quite a complex issue linked to politics, economics, and even sociology… and there is a range of variables in play that make it tough to answer - why are women paid less than men?
Following our articles on Challenges Female Producers Face and How These 5 Factors Contribute to the Gender Pay Gap In The Music Industry, we’re excited to expand the research with an audio discussion and a guest who can help us better understand the issue.
For this episode we invited Vick Bain who is a campaigner for women in music through researching, training, presenting & consulting on all aspects of diversity in creative industries. She has extensive experience in the music industry as she was the CEO for the BASCA (British Academy for Songwriters, Composers, and Authors), she sat on the UK music board, the UK rights committee, and the UK Music Diversity Taskforce - and the ones I mentioned are only a few of the boards she’s been on. Now she works as a freelance music industry consultant, a curator of the F-List, a director of an organization called Pipa, and she’s a director of an exciting music-tech start up called Delic. I can’t neglect to mention that she was enrolled into BBC Radio 4’s Women's Hour Powerlist in 2018.
Show notes
[11:12] On her experience as CEO at BASCA (British Academy for Songwriters, Composers, and Authors)
[14:30] On her report “Counting the Music Industry” and the hardest part about the report
[26:44] Why companies don’t promote women in the upper echelons of the organization
[29:50] On how women leaders are treated compared to men
[40:35] On the motherhood penalty
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