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A Gender Gap In Ballet Leadership Seems Too Weird – But It’s Real

DANCE Posted: September 15, 2019 10:30 am

Girls outnumber boys up to 20 to 1 in ballet classes, and so it seems like ballet would be one place – maybe the only place – where women would have the majority of leadership roles. Nope. “A whopping 72% of ballet companies have a male artistic director. Those women who do get the title of artistic director earn only 68 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts.” And for choreography, the numbers are far worse. – Forbes

DANCE Published: 09.12.19, sj

Read the story in Forbes Published: 09.12.19, sj

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