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To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions: If ensembles are to reflect the communities they serve, the audition process should take into account race, gender and other factors.

For those who don't know, some 30+ years ago feminists popularized the idea that women were discriminated against in things like job interviews and music auditions.

There was even a study published which claimed to back that up.

However, more and more evidence keeps coming in showing the opposite: that it's really men who are being discriminated against. Meaning that men excel in some of those fields not because of discrimination, but in spite of it.

In fact it may even be the case that discrimination against men is what leads to more men being accepted in some of those positions in the first place. If men are held to a higher standard in order to be on the same footing as women, they might practice more and put in more effort to overcome that bias.

Anyway that original study I mentioned has since been debunked. People still quote from it though. And they ignore all the evidence that's come out since then showing that it's really men who are being discriminated against.

See:


https://reason.com/2019/10/22/orchestra-study-blind-auditions-gelman/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/blind-spots-in-the-blind-audition-study-11571599303

The research went uncriticized for nearly two decades. That changed recently, when a few scholars and data scientist went back and read the whole study. The first thing that noticed is that the raw tabulations showed women doing worse [during blind auditions].

And:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-trial-to-improve-gender-equality-failing-study/8664888?pfmredir=sm

https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/112/17/5360.full.pdf


Many orchestras and symphonies are starting to go back to non blind auditions now that verdict is in on this.

Here's a Facebook post for the Vancouver symphony from just last year, for example:

https://i.redd.it/phz5zrqifcm41.png

The idea that people prefer men over women is really pretty laughable at this point.

I mean think about it: actively encouraging sexism against men is happening in plain sight for everyone to see. And it is being encouraged by the self-aware wolves known as SJWs.

Sexism is perfectly ok to these people so long as that sexism affects men and not women.