LATEST REPORT
The sixth year of data shows progress slipping back. Women hold 49% of board seats, down from 52% in 2024, and the intersectionality gap is the widest since tracking began.
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WHAT WE MEASURE
Who
Eleven UK music trade bodies since 2020, with the live music sector added in 2025.
What
Board members, executive teams, CEOs and Chairs.
How
Gender and ethnicity tracked together, so the picture for Global Majority women is never hidden inside a total.
KEY FINDINGS
Progress is real, and it is fragile.
Six years of tracking who sits on the boards of eleven UK music trade bodies.
49%
Women on boards
Down from 52% in 2024
32%
52%
49%
2020
2024
2026
11%
Global Majority women on boards
Down from 16% in 2024
3%
16%
11%
2020
2024
2026
38pp
Intersectionality gap
The widest since tracking began
29pp
36pp
38pp
2020
2024
2026
0
Global Majority women CEOs
Across eleven organisations in six years
Eleven organisations, none led by a Global Majority woman
Source: Seat at the Table 2026. All bars are drawn to one scale.
ALL REPORTS
2026
Seat at the Table 2026
The sixth year of data on who leads the UK music industry’s trade bodies.
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2025
Seat at the Table: LIVE Edition
The first count of leadership across the live music sector, commissioned by LIVE.
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2021
100 Women: Seat at the Table
One hundred women on what having a seat at the table means to them.
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Reports from 2020 to 2026 were published by Women in CTRL.