female:pressure, a transnational database and network of women and nonbinary individuals in music, has published its 2024 FACTS report, analyzing the gender distribution of artists performing at electronic music festivals worldwide.
The team at female:pressure, which has been studying gender-based booking trends since 2012, collected data from 175 editions of 110 different festivals that were held between 2022 and 2023. According to their report, women comprised 30 percent of electronic festival bookings in this period.
This statistic demonstrates a nearly 21 percent increase in female…