Music industry organisations We Are Moving The Needle and Jaxsta have launched Fix The Mix, an initiative that streamlines the process of finding and connecting music industry figures who identify as she/her or they/them.
Jaxsta will be the first music industry credits database with gender identifiers, where industry figures will be able to search and connect with engineers, producers, mixers and songwriters who are women or gender non conforming.
To enable this connection, Jaxsta, the platform powering Fix The Mix, pledges to prioritise the inclusion of gender pronoun identifiers as well as foster opportunities aimed at creating parity.
Jaxsta is currently the world's only official music credits database and is home to more than 220 million credits by 13 million creatives.
Grammy Award-winning mastering engineer Emily Lazar founded We Are Moving The Needle to help close the vast gender gap highlighted by last year’s report from The Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
The study found that 2% of record producers and engineers are women.
“While we still have a long way to go, I am thrilled to see this important step toward parity in the hiring process for women in the technical fields of the recording industry,” Lazar said.
"The music business desperately needs a resource that can highlight, enable, and source women and non-binary engineers, producers, creators, and songwriters, side by side with their male counterparts.”
As part of Fix The Mix, Jaxsta will also feature women and non-binary recording professionals on its explore page, which is visited by more than 150,000 music industry and music fans every month.
