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The Grammys Aside, Music Is Still a Man’s World
This year the awards show may have celebrated female artists, but women are underrepresented in key areas of the industry.
Eyes on the prize(s).
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If you were among the 16.9 million people who watched the Grammys on Sunday, you might reasonably surmise that sisters, as Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin so memorably put it, are doing it for themselves. The broadcast and the headlines were dominated by women, spanning several generations, from Joni Mitchell to Tracy Chapman, and from Miley Cyrus to 2-year-old Hazel Monet.
Oh yeah, and Taylor Swift.