I was seeking out a girl from the industry. She is involved in several boards inside some of the music industry. Also, she is in a government program where she gets paid to get to several festivals around Europe to promote female producers.
I wanted a meeting with her to get some female producers into a project we have. For three festivals during the past four months, I have sought her to get a meeting. At all three times, she hasn’t been able to attend the festivals. Her name is there but she never visits the actual event.

This last event I also bumped into another person that is on the same board as her. This person just sighed and said that this woman had only been on one meeting out of ten. And when she is there she leaves early for something else. Then I meet another that was involved in one of her other projects. Same here, she was very little there and also contribute with very little.

Then the person dropped the bomb. This girl was voted in just because she was a woman. In the wave of meetoo, they got her in since she claimed to be part of the movement. She was mainly voted in just as a woman, not for her knowledge. Now she was mainly taking up space in boards really not making any use for anyone.

I got back and did some research on certain projects. She voted in her friends bands in most of the government sponsored things she was part of. Still you can easily see that they hadn’t participated in any of the events. In reality they took up space for someone else that might could have benefitted this. They voted in women that later didn’t use the opportunity.

These things really make me angry. And I seem to bump into them more and more. People with an agenda to get space and power but when they got it has no interest do something with it. Just stay there with the title.

I don’t know if it is incompetence and when they get higher in the organizations realise that they don’t have the knowledge or if it is that they just doesn’t care.

In early days people like that was kicked out naturally. Now they get to stay because of gender.