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As of 2022, the music festival Melodifestivalen‘s fans can be assured that every song they hear has at least one female writer behind it. Sweden’s Television, SVT, that are the producers behind the show, have made it a requirement that there be at least one woman in the song-writing team, unless there is only one writer. If there’s only one writer of the song, then it’s acceptable that the writer is male.
“We get a lot of critique for the way it looks on the copyright side,” says Karin Gunnarsson, Melodifestivalen’s producer to Aftonbladet. “This is something we take seriously, and we want to see more female originators.”
Fans of quota systems rejoice.