'When festivals are criticised year after year for not including enough women, yet continue not to do anything about it, it’s obvious that they don’t care'
Out of 92 names on the first Reading and Leeds poster, just 20 are women.
It’s the Festival Republic stage where women are best represented, with over half of the line-up being female so far.But across the whole festival? With just 20 acts featuring women , that means that only 21 per cent of the line-up is made up of female artists. Considering the UK is made up of 51 per cent women… you can see this is a bit messed up.This isn’t new territory for Reading and Leeds, or just a slip-up for 2020. The festival is consistently male-dominated.
So sure, five years on, they’ve technically increased female representation on their bill. But an increase of 10 women across a line-up of close to 100 names is laughable.
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