Artists in the pandemic: Recent and long-term labour force trends

over the 25-year period: women represented 51% of artists during the first five years of the Long-term trends data and 52% of artists during the last five years of the data. [...] Women have consistently had much less paid work as artists than men between 1997 and During the same timeframe, the number of 2021: women account for a much smaller artists increased by 28%, which is also less proportion of total hours worked (44%) than than the 38% increase in the number of the number of artists (51%). [...] represented 44% of total hours worked by artists during the first five years of the data Long-term trends for the self- and 46% of total hours worked during the employed last five years of the data. [...] Canada outlines the concern among the Because of this, and because of particularly Indigenous performing artists interviewed small sample sizes for Indigenous artists (i.e., for the project “about the current pandemic artists are about 1% of the overall labour and the medium and long-term impact it will force and Indigenous Peoples represent have on Indigenous performing arts. [...] The Statistical Insights on the Arts series, created by Hill Strategies Research in 2002, is part of Arts Insights Canada, a partnership with three leading foundations engaged in the Canadian arts sector: the Azrieli Foundation, the Rozsa Foundation, and the Metcalf Foundation.