A brand new examine carried out by feminine:strain revealed that 27% of music pageant acts in 2020 and 2021 had been feminine, a rise of 18% from 10 years in the past.
The information collected represented international locations worldwide and with no restrictions, utilizing a standardized kind to gather single units of knowledge. The main target of the survey was from 109 totally different digital music festivals and 159 pageant editions. As soon as a fest was included within the knowledge assortment, the acts had been counted no matter their musical style. They didn’t rely installations, movie screenings or discourse applications.
With compounding strain being positioned on main festivals and venues around the globe to be extra inclusive to girls, transgender, and non-binary people, feminine:strain‘s “FACTS” examine confirmed a rise in feminine bookings at festivals. In keeping with the examine, females solely represented 9% of acts in 2012, whereas males made up 82%.
In 2020 and 2021 throughout Europe and North America, feminine:strain reported a 30.6% clip of feminine acts at European festivals and 22.2% at North American occasions.
The highest festivals in 2020 and 2021 with the best proportions of feminine acts had been Colombia’s Competition En Tiempo Actual, and Germany’s Dystopie Competition and 3hd. Conversely, the occasions with essentially the most quantity of male acts included American nautical fest Holy Ship (USA), BPM Competition Costa Rica, and South Africa’s Wolfkop Weekender.
Curiously, the examine confirmed that festivals which had essentially the most girls had extra non-binary acts. Just one, Medellín’s Freedom Competition, had non-binary illustration throughout the festivals of highest proportion of males in 2020 and 2021.
Learn feminine:strain‘s full examine here.