HAIM Fired Agent After Finding Out A Male Artist At Same Fest Was Paid 10 Times More

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Danielle: "It’s so hard to check: everything’s so secretive about how much people are getting paid, and that’s bullshit."

Source: HuffPo, by Rebecca Shapiro

“We had been told that our fee was very low because you played at the festival in the hope that you’d get played on the radio,” Danielle said. But they were paid 10 times less, which prompted them to fire their agent over the discrepancy.

“It’s fucked up not even to be paid half the same amount. But to be paid a tenth of that amount of money? It was insane,” Alana added.

HAIM’s concerns are valid. When a British law required companies of more than 250 employees to reveal internal data on their gender pay gaps, Universal, Sony and Warner’s UK reported women working at the music labels earned significantly less than their male counterparts (22.7 percent at Sony, 29.8 percent at Universal and 49 percent at Warner, according to Variety). Additionally, top leadership roles were overwhelmingly occupied by men.

“Women are rarely credited as the creative force behind popular music,” Stacy L. Smith, author of the study and think tank leader, said at the time the research was released. “The lack of female songwriters and producers means that the epidemic of invisibility we have catalogued for women in key creative roles in film and television extends to music. These agenda-setting songs are like so many other forms of entertainment — reflective of a largely male perspective.”

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