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Gender gap: Do men dominate Australia's music scene?

Turn on your radio — it is statistically likely you'll hear music made by a man.

Go to a summer music festival. Is the headliner a man? Probably. The Australian music scene, like many industries, has a gender problem.

When triple j's Hack crunched the numbers, it discovered last year's Splendour in the Grass and Falls Festival booked almost 70 per cent male acts. That number blew out to 90 per cent at Listen Out and Stereosonic.