“Girls can’t do that”
Women running Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. reached a record high of 11.6% in 2025. As of January 1, 2025, women held only 27.2% of seats in national parliaments and their representation in local governments stagnated at 35.5% in 2023 and 2024; 107 countries have never had a woman Head of State. Only 10 percent of the world’s music directors are women, an orchestra’s top conducting job, barely up from 8.5 percent reported in 2006.
Why are there so few female Conductors?
Read the full article at The Walrus.
Racial/Ethnic and Gender Diversity in the Orchestra Field
View/download the PDF from The League of American Orchestras.
Women in Business
2020 marked record highs for women in business — The Business Journals
Women's Power Index
The Women’s Power Index ranks 193 UN member states on their progress toward gender parity in political participation — Council on Foreign Relations
