Misogyny in music: Few women report discrimination in industry, inquiry hears

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The success of Mercury Prize and Brit Award-winner Little Simz highlights how it is possible to 'be your authentic self' as a black woman in the music industry.

"There is something unique about the music industry that the Me Too movement hasn't really penetrated to the same extent that it has like the film industry," Dr Jones commented.

"So when that happens to one woman and then another woman sees this, they'll often think, 'well why should I report look what happened to her'." "I think there could be more signposting, more obvious ways of showing that there will be a consequence for the perpetrator and that you're going to be protected and safe," she said.Little Simz won this year's Mercury Prize award for her album Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

"What I want to hammer home is the director of marketing who handles Little Simz is a black woman," she told the committee. "She knows exactly what to do with an artist like Little Simz, meaning it can be done."

 

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