About 10 percent of orchestra members were female around 1970, compared to about 35 percent in the mid-1990s. Rouse and Goldin attribute about 30 percent of this gain to the advent of blind auditions. My sense is that blind auditions have made a tremendous difference in the amount of hiring discrimination women face. Nelson recalled how sensitive she was to the gender issue while auditioning. The Bulletin is published weekly during the academic year, except during University breaks and exam weeks, by the Office of Communications, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
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