UK’s Women and Equalities Committee issues Misogyny in Music updates

UK government must extend new NDA protections to freelancers to truly tackle misogyny in music, say MPs

The UK government must ensure that new rules to stop the use of non-disclosure agreements to silence the victims of harassment and abuse in the workplace apply to freelancers as well as formal employees, say MPs in the UK Parliament who have investigated misogyny in music. According to Parliament’s Women & Equalities Committee, those new rules are key to fighting misogyny in the music business, but won’t deliver real change if they don't apply t…

UK’s Women and Equalities Committee issues Misogyny in Music updates

The UK Parliament’s Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) is the entity behind the ‘Misogyny in Music’ inquiry, whose initial report we covered in January 2024, before a follow-up in June 2025. The latest update is a pair of letters sent to ministers by the committee’s chair Sarah Owen MP focused on “stronger legislative protections to tackle misogyny […] The post is from Music Ally.