The Motherhood Penalty

Our first research project is The Motherhood Penalty research project, run in partnership with PiPA and Keira Malik.

This project is primarily focused on theatre at present then will be expanded to include film, literature, dance, music and visual arts in order to reflect the focus of the taskforce Arts Council England has agreed to launch as a result our research and as research shows it is important to look at and address the reasons for under-representation across the arts as well as in individual art forms, for example the finding that over 70% of students on UK creative arts courses are female but only around 30% or less of roles across the arts are occupied by women which our CEO completed the world first major mixed methods research project on at Cambridge University.

Please click on the link below to read our stage one report