Beyonce snubbed at country music awards | BBC News (youtube.com)
The interviewee here says sexism.
Only about 10% of airplay on country stations is women artists, reportedly. Whether this is because less women want to be career country musicians or produce less hits or are less popular with listeners, or if there is actual thumb on the scales in favor of male artists to such a high degree, not sure.
More than 90% of Grammy nominees are men. But again, how many more men are engineers, producers, etc, than women? How many female artists stick with it after age 30 or so?
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