And for underrepresented women producers that ratio jumped to an astounding 131.5 to 1.Įxamining song genre by artist gender, the researchers found the gender ratio for Country was 4.8 to 1, not faring as well as the Pop genre where men outnumbered women 2 to 1.Īcross genres, female songwriters were least likely to have written Hip-Hop/Rap (6.7%) and Country (9.7%) songs compared to Pop (19.5%) and Dance/Electronic (19.5%). Across the total of producing credits from 2012-2022, men outnumbered women 34.1 to 1. also found little change in the percentage of women producers. The bottom line-the men to women songwriter ratio across those 11 years was 6.8 to 1. The bad news? Only 14% of the 451 songwriters noted in 2022 were women, with no significant change across the Billboard Hot 100 Year End charts since 2012. noted that in 2022 women performers across genres were significantly more likely (30%) to appear on the Billboard Hot 100 chart than they were in 2021 (23.3%) or 2012 (22.7%), an increase, but one that still doesn’t approach women’s U.S.
The good news? In their 2023 report, Smith et al.