In combating the myth of meritocracy, major shifts need to be made in order to reach equity which starts from removing barriers and providing opportunity from a government level. This is what the Australia Council for the Arts proactively acknowledges in the inequalities within the structures. The ‘Gender & creativity: progress on the precipice’ (UNESCO) report found that 73% of their music grants in 2018 were allocated to women, whilst there was continued implementation of action plans to shift the inequity of gender within the arts. 

Find out more in the report ‘Gender & creativity: progress on the precipice’ (UNESCO) which gives an overarching global scope here.