Women in music: One in every eight producers, only one in 50 producers

Women made up only 12% of the songwriters responsible for writing the 700 songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 year-end charts between 2012 and 2018, which is in stark contrast to one-third of all musicians identifying as female, according to Variety. It gets even worse when looking at music producers - gender breakdown for music producers who worked on the top 400 popular songs from 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2018, found a men-to-women producer ratio of 47:1. That translates to only 2.1% of those producers identifying as female.