45 Music Festivals Pledging For Gender-Balanced Lineups By 2022 Is Long Overdue

45 international music festivals are coming together to make a change in their lineups, which have notoriously skewed heavily towards male acts. They plan to fight for gender equality with a 50/50 balance by 2022, per Pitchfork.

The plan is backed by by UK talent agency PRS Foundation, which just launched a new program called Keychange. According to their website, they are "a pioneering European initiative which is empowering women to transform the future of the music industry and encouraging festivals to achieve a 50:50 balance by 2022." The festivals who have signed up include: New York's Winter Jazzfest and A2IM Indie Week; Canada's BreakOut West, MUTEK and North by North East; the UK's BBC Proms, Kendal Calling, Sŵn, and Liverpool Sound City; Sweden's Way Out West, Iceland Airwaves, Estonia’s Tallinn Music Week, and many others.