Let's Hear It For the Boy

The LAT posits and interesting argument: Music kinda sucks (and music sales are slipping) because there are fewer female A&R execs than there used to be.

Women buy roughly half of all CDs sold, according to the Recording Industry Assn. of America, and most radio formats target women as their primary audience. Yet, according to the A&R Registry, a directory of professionals in the field, no woman runs the mainstream music A&R department at any major record label.

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