Australia's major dance companies need to step up on gender equality
- Written by Andrew Westle, Assistant researcher and PhD candidate, La Trobe University
The dance sector in Australia has a gender equality problem. While nearly 70% of people working in the industry identify as female, there is a significant gender gap in programming and leadership at the major dance companies.
A report released this week, Turning Pointe, by Andrew Westle, looked at the five big dance companies that receive the...