NEW YORK—After a few missteps, the Recording Academy is reassuring its members that it is not lagging behind the music industry when it comes to female representation. The letter to academy members comes weeks after a University of Southern California — Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism study analyzed gender and race in music over the past six years, including Grammy nominees. Between 2012 and 2017, USC said 90.7 per cent of the nominees were male and 9.3 per cent were female. The numbers come from five awards: album of the year, record of the year, song of the year, best new artist and non-classical producer of the year — an award where female nominees are a rarity. However, in looking at the same six years at all of 84 Grammy categories, the academy said that 17 per cent of its nominees were women.

Source: thestar February 15, 2018 19:52 UTC