Women composers' share

Share of a season's work performances (individual composers) by women composers, from Wikidata sex or gender (P21) (new in 1.4).

Formula: work performances by composers whose P21 is female (Q6581072) or trans woman (Q1052281) / work performances by individual composers. The lower bound counts composers without P21 as not women, the upper bound as women; the middle value uses composers with a P21 value only. Several different P21 values count as unknown. Decade values are averages weighted by each season's work performances.
How to read it: Up to the 2000s the decade middle value never exceeds 1% (highest: 0.74% in the 1990s). The 2010s: 1.65% (lower bound 1.39%, upper bound 16.84%); the 2020s (completed seasons 2020–21 to 2025–26): 6.13% (4.66% to 28.69%). The bounds widen in recent seasons, where more composers have no recorded gender (coverage 76.0% in the 2020s).
Caveats: P21 is what Wikidata editors recorded. As with the dates, only composers with 10+ performances are matched to Wikidata items, so the unknown share grows in recent seasons and the bounds widen.

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By completed season. The lower bound counts composers of unknown gender as not women, the upper bound as women; the middle value uses composers with a recorded gender only.

Decade	Work performances (individuals)	Gender coverage	Lower bound	Middle value	Upper bound
1840s	198	80.3%	0.00%	0.00%	19.70%
1850s	296	72.6%	0.00%	0.00%	27.36%
1860s	334	81.7%	0.00%	0.00%	18.26%
1870s	488	91.4%	0.20%	0.22%	8.81%
1880s	926	94.1%	0.00%	0.00%	5.94%
1890s	1,349	92.8%	0.00%	0.00%	7.19%
1900s	3,065	93.8%	0.00%	0.00%	6.17%
1910s	6,892	94.7%	0.03%	0.03%	5.30%
1920s	9,808	95.5%	0.01%	0.01%	4.47%
1930s	7,640	94.9%	0.01%	0.01%	5.14%
1940s	8,057	92.9%	0.00%	0.00%	7.09%
1950s	7,978	94.6%	0.00%	0.00%	5.44%
1960s	7,685	96.3%	0.21%	0.22%	3.86%
1970s	7,428	96.2%	0.12%	0.13%	3.92%
1980s	6,661	96.1%	0.48%	0.50%	4.41%
1990s	6,447	93.8%	0.70%	0.74%	6.93%
2000s	7,669	93.5%	0.25%	0.26%	6.74%
2010s	7,751	84.6%	1.39%	1.65%	16.84%
2020s	3,995	76.0%	4.66%	6.13%	28.69%

Source

New York Philharmonic Performance History: works, composers and conductors on more than 15,000 programs from the first concert in December 1842 to the current season. Besides the Philharmonic proper, the archive holds programs of the New York Symphony, the Stadium concerts and chamber series; this site does not filter them out. Updated nightly. https://github.com/nyphilarchive/PerformanceHistory · License: CC0 1.0

Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) person items: year of birth (P569) and death (P570). Composers with at least 10 NY Phil performances (U1) were searched by name; only human items with a music occupation were kept and checked against the composer's first season (born at least five years earlier). Names with several candidates or a failed check were resolved one by one by the editor. The matching table (composer_wikidata.csv) is published. https://www.wikidata.org/ · License: CC0 1.0

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