{"id":12081,"date":"2023-10-23T13:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12081"},"modified":"2023-10-23T13:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T13:37:34","slug":"new-study-demonstrates-gender-imbalances-persist-in-us-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2023\/10\/23\/new-study-demonstrates-gender-imbalances-persist-in-us-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"New Study Demonstrates Gender Imbalances Persist in US Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12082\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12082\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Gender-Imbalances-in-US-Opera-Sector.jpg\" alt=\"Porgy and Bess, Met Opera\" width=\"1200\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Gender-Imbalances-in-US-Opera-Sector.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Gender-Imbalances-in-US-Opera-Sector-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Gender-Imbalances-in-US-Opera-Sector-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Gender-Imbalances-in-US-Opera-Sector-768x434.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Porgy and Bess, 2019. Production by James Robinson, set designs by Michael Yeargan, costume designs by Catherine Zuber. Photo: Ken Howard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last week, a study in the Equality, Diversion and Inclusion journal highlighted major gender imbalances in the US opera sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s up?:<\/strong> Equality, Diversion and Inclusion, a peer-reviewed journal, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emerald.com\/insight\/content\/doi\/10.1108\/EDI-03-2023-0071\/full\/html\">published a study<\/a> last week highlighting major gender inequities in leadership positions in the US opera sector. The study surveyed the 11 largest American companies between 2005 and 2021, including the Met, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the San Francisco Opera.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Going Deeper:<\/strong> The study found that between 2005 and 2021 at these companies, men accounted for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">95% of conductors<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">85% of directors<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">88% of set designers<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">85% of lighting designers<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">59% of costume designers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a study in the Equality, Diversion and Inclusion journal highlighted major gender imbalances in the US opera sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[86,3,80,14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/10\/Gender-Imbalances-in-US-Opera-Sector.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12085,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12081\/revisions\/12085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12081"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}