Hobart-based Suffragette Records part of movement to amplify female artists in male-dominated industry
ABCWhen visiting this record store in Hobart you might find Lauren Carter and her three daughters playing hidden gems or well-loved works from a breadth of female artists. My memory of women in the music industry is that they are girlfriends or receptionists … or if they're doing well as musicians, they're 'difficult divas'… that's always been a narrative in the Australian music industry. " Whilst there's been an improvement since the 80s, Lauren said gender imbalance in the music industry was still prevalent. "It's great that we've got like a third of the music industry represented … at least in a performance sense, less in the producer sense … but it's important to remain vigilant, because things can just change really quickly," she said. She said she had personal experience of gender imbalance in the music industry, and that because it was highly unregulated "a lot of toxic behaviour can survive".
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