The blind auditions may be a bad example - or at least, may not have helped get more women hired into orchestras. The original study that posited that blind aud

The blind auditions may be a bad example - or at least, may not have helped get more women hired into orchestras. The original study that posited that blind auditions greatly help women does not show strong data to support its claims and what data it does show either contradicts the claim (when confounded) or has no significant result and large error values (when unconfounded). See https://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-blindauditions/ https://jsmp.dk/posts/2019-05-12-blindauditions/ for more details. There are also a lot of... let's call them self-styled anti-racists who want to end blind auditions because they don't result in enough minority hires (see [0], [1], [2]) which is an interesting way to define discrimination, I suppose. [0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-auditions-orchestras-race.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/music/blind-audition... [1]: https://www.amren.com/news/2020/07/to-make-orchestras-more-diverse-end-blind-auditions/ https://www.amren.com/news/2020/07/to-make-orchestras-more-d... [2]: https://www.quora.com/Considering-that-blind-auditions-increased-the-number-of-women-in-orchestras-from-6-to-33-but-did-little-to-increase-racial-diversity-should-we-end-blind-auditions https://www.quora.com/Considering-that-blind-auditions-incre...