The Long-Term Effects of Gender Discriminatory Programming

I’ve long had a hunch that even small differentials in the likelihood of having pieces performed between women and men composers can have a huge cumulative effect over the long-term. My partner Neil Banas is a computer modeller, and he made me an interactive model for this article (published on New Music Box), which indeed bears out my theory. Drag the blue sliders to see how gender (or other) inequality may affect composers over the course of their careers.