Recording Academy president tells women to ‘step up’ in music industry hmmm

Keen-eyed viewers may have noticed that only one woman won a major Grammy Award on Sunday, but don’t blame systemic sexism or centuries of gender bias! Recording Academy president Neil Portnow told Variety that women need “step up” in all aspects of the music industry because “I think they would be welcome.”

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“I don’t have personal experience of those kinds of brick walls that you face but I think it’s upon us — us as an industry — to make the welcome mat very obvious, breeding opportunities for all people who want to be creative and paying it forward and creating that next generation of artists,” said Portnow, a man. Read more…

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