"The Women of Pageantry"

[Joe Flynn]

So I have a question. Why do men dominate the winter guard activity in leadership positions when young women are the primary recipient of the performance art?

This is not a blog post about sexism. It's not a war cry for women's rights. It's a look at what is happening and whether our bubble called pageantry is truly sexist or men and women just simply make different choices in regards to the activity and how it effects our young women. When researching this post I looked at all three major pageantry organizations: Winter Guard International, Drum Corps International, and Music For All. For the sake of simplicity and since this is not actual research, I decided to stay focused on winter guard, because dynamics are vastly different between the three organizations and the activities they represent. There are however similarities, and those similarities will be mentioned here.

Read the rest at http://paradigmwinterguard.blogspot.com