info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart Keywords: cultural diversity, cultural rights, gender equality, participation, feminist music management. application/pdf 184219 bytes Women's Leadership in Music : Modes, Legacies, Alliances 63 All rights reserved 2023 eng Women in Music: Possibilities and Responsibilities of Cultural Management and Policy https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:32292 doi:10.14361/9783839465462-011 ISSN: of series 2703-1004e 2703-1012 Abstract: Previous global research on the participation and share of women in music of the last three decades indicates a wide spectrum of causes and dimensions of inequality and a more difficult professional development path for them, in line with patriarchal social ideas, but also prejudices and stereotypes about youth. Young women in the music scene of Southeastern Europe are treated differently in comparison to their male and older counterparts, while their underrepresentation is often explained by mobilizing the discourses stressing individuality and psychological causes. In contrast to that, this chapter aims to discuss the reach and possibilities of cultural management and policies to influence gender and age equality within the cultural scene in Serbia and Southeastern Europe, as well as to contribute to a more extensive participation of women and youth in cultural production and decision making. This chapter presents the results of the experiment conducted in April and June 2022 when two concerts of young female musicians were conceptualized and organized in Belgrade in the framework of “feminist music management”, based on the interviews and focus groups with female musicians of younger generations in Serbia and the region of Southeastern Europe throughout 2021 in both physical and virtual space. The research also comprises the analysis of several important instruments of national cultural policy in Serbia in 2021. Transcript Nikolić, Tatjana Mitić Minić, Katarina