How Lights, IsKwé and other women are making change in the Canadian music industry - News Summed Up

How Lights, IsKwé and other women are making change in the Canadian music industry


As the Canadian music industry gathers in Vancouver to celebrate the Juno Awards this weekend, inclusion, gender parity and the #MeToo movement will undoubtedly be topics of conversation. Despite her success and music industry connections, she recently realized something was missing and took to Twitter to find it. There's sexual misconduct, "harassment and ... just the general assumption that women don't know what we're doing," she said. Next generation forging aheadStudents Hannah Wordekemper, left, Jasleen Kaur and Alyssa Ichinose say they're excited to learn more about the creative and engineering sides of the music industry. Offstage, Juno-nominated musician IsKwé is equally vocal as an advocate for gender parity in music.


Source: CBC News March 24, 2018 07:52 UTC



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