“They are providing our industry, and the public, with a tool to reference and call out gender discrepancies with just a glance.”
Mary Allen - UTA (ROLLING STONE, 2023)
BOOK MORE WOMEN IN THE MEDIA
ROLLING STONE / ALEXA PETERS / 2023
BOSTON GLOBE / LAUREN SURBEY / 2023
NYLON / ALLISON STUBBLEBINE / 2020
TEEN VOGUE / P. CLAIRE DODSON / 2019
VOX / ALLEGRA FRANK / 2019
MEDIA KIT
CONTACT
For media inquiries, interview requests, or other media outreach please contact:
Abbey Carbonneau
Executive Director
media@bookmorewomen.com
ABOUT BOOK MORE WOMEN
Founded in 2018, Book More Women is an arts service organization working to advance gender equity in the music industry through research, education, industry partnership, and direct support programs.
Using data and lived community experience, Book More Women is revealing inequities and building practical solutions to help organizations make effective changes, shift narratives surrounding representation, and directly support underrepresented artists and independent events.
Our History
Book More Women was created in 2018 by Abbey Carbonneau as a solo fan-run social media advocacy project. Started after an online argument about a festival lineup announcement, the idea of the initiative was to edit and share as many lineup posters as possible, demonstrating the prevalence of gender disparity and turning up the volume on the conversation. In 2024 after hundreds of posts, Book More Women became a team effort for the first time.
In 2025, Book More Women officially incorporated and became a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas. Book More Women is actively pursuing 501(c)(3) status, but is not currently a nonprofit organization.
Fast Facts
ABOUT OUR WORK
Since 2018, Book More Women has analyzed and shared over 550 festival lineups
In just the last 2 years, Book More Women has manually researched over 11,000 individual musicians.
Our data is collected entirely by humans. Book More Women does not use AI tools or web scraping.
BOOK MORE WOMEN Data INSIGHTS
21.6% of musicians booked for major multi-genre U.S. festivals in 2025 were women
1.0% of musicians booked for major multi-genre U.S. festivals in 2025 were women
10 of 2,038 musicians booked for major multi-genre U.S. festivals in 2025 were transgender. 9 were women. 1 was a man.
8 out of 9 major multi-genre U.S. festivals booked fewer gender-diverse artists in 2025 than in 2024 (2025 Progress Report)
In 2025, across all 42 festivals analyzed, 18% of musicians booked were women, 1% were nonbinary, 81% were men (5,385 musicians total).
Methodology QUICK Guide
To ensure accuracy in reporting, please note the distinction between our two data standards:
Official Method (By Individual): Our method counts each permanent, official individual musician of each act. This is our default metric, adopted at the beginning of 2024.
% women = women / all musicians
Legacy Method (By Act): Our original method counts a group as "gender diverse" if it features at least one woman or nonbinary permanent, official musician. This is used primarily for tracking, allowing us to compare data going back to 2018.
% diverse = acts with at least one woman or nonbinary musician / all acts
Full methodology on our data page