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Monday, September 15, 2008 12:00 AM

Where are all the female conductors?

A female winner of a BBC conducting competition highlights the lack of women on the podium.
Kate Harding

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  • Monday, September 15, 2008 08:58 AM

    You say you want a revolution?

    I think this story relates to an earlier Broadsheet article about the pay discepency between high level male and female executives. Could it be that because "feminists" have placed so much emphasis on making huge salaries in the corporate world that they have failed to encourage young women to consider lower-paying (but, possibly far more satisfying and useful) careers in the arts? One of the gaping flaws I see in the Women's Movement is it's unquestioning embrace of capitalism and success by male standards. How can any movement be truly revolutionary if it has the same goals as the establishment it claims to be attempiting to overthrow?

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