Abstract
Recent years have brought some optimistic statistics for general employment as well as female employment in the Creative Industries. The number of jobs in the Creative Industries (which refers to jobs in both creative and support capacities), increased by 5.5% between 2013 and 2014 to 1.8 million jobs. However, since 2011, the overall increase of employment in the sector was notes as 15.8%. In Scotland alone, 102,000 jobs in creative industries were generated which substantiated 5.6% of all creative industries jobs in the UK. One of the Creative Industries’ subsectors, ‘Music, performing and visual arts’ generated 18,000 jobs in Scotland in 2014. Despite this significant contribution to GDP and employment generation, the position of women in music and performing arts is far from ideal. This report discusses powerlessness, occupational segregation, conscious and unconscious bias, gender inequality of work opportunities and invisibility of women working in music and performing arts sectors.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Glasgow |
| Publisher | The Scottish Trades Union Congress |
| Commissioning body | The Scottish Government |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Apr 2016 |
Publication series
| Name | Women's Voices Women and Work Scotland 2016 |
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| Publisher | The Scottish Trades Union Congress |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 5 Gender Equality -
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
Keywords
- women's work
- musicians
- performers
- women's voices
- gendered barriers to work and employment
- trade unions
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