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Honouring music's top women: last week's Women Of The Year Awards honoured several of the music industry's high-profile women. They also highlighted the wider issue of inequality: despite the presence of women in a few senior jobs, the key roles in UK music are still almost all held by men. (Women Of The Year--Analysis).

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Emmeline Pankhurst would probably not approve of her dress sense, but Christina Aguilera is at least helping to ensure sexual equality rules within the UK charts.

Only the other week, the scantily-dressed singer led a singles Top 10 countdown typically almost half-filled by female artists, while around one-third of this year's Top 75 biggest artist albums--including eight of the Top 20--come from female acts.

But, while the likes of Aguilera, Madonna and Kylie Minogue are ensuring a healthy balance of power on the artistic front, within the corridors of the music companies little seems to have changed since the dark ages. As the industry gathered for the ...

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