the point is sort of that its subconscious. its unintentionally ingrained into us our whole lives that some things are gendered and even trying to be unbiased you are still biased. the most well meaning people in the world will sometimes be sexist and racist, we cannot avoid it we can only strive to make ourselves better and slowly over time it will be better.
i imagine women even pursuing the field is affected by the same things that caused these steps to be necessary, so i would be super surprised if it wasn't numbers like that.
dont these kinds of orchestras have a set number of spots? Say there are 100 spots and they usually only accept 15 female students and 85 male. Now, they accepted 45 female students, resulting in 55 male student spot. Now the number of male and female students differs by 10 as opposed to 70
it all really depends on what the original number was, it does not tell us starting or ending number, or even the time period. so if it was 1 in 100 now its 3 in 100, if it was 15 in 100 now its 45 in 100. it does drive home the fact that while the percent is impressive it does not tell us if they are close to equality, or give us enough to know if its really an improvement, because going from 1 to 3 is small enough to be a statistical anomaly, whereas 15 to 45 is a definite change.
I think Garlic is saying you shouldn't hire base on the sole trait of talent. They may be lazy, or a criminal, or anything. He's not being sexist or some shit, why the downsides?
I think it was not well said. Going against that though, you don't make it in the music world without one hell of a work ethic. You can't be lazy and practice hours a day.
That is indeed what I meant.