What Manoush Zomorodi has said about Women in the music industry

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 2, 2026

Manoush Zomorodi, Host of NPR's TED Radio Hour, has been quoted on Women in the music industry once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on October 2, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Zomorodi notes that the share of women on Billboard Hot 100 charts has risen from about 22-23 percent to around a third.

    “it's gone up from about 22 percent, 23 percent women on those charts. And now it's around like a third or so”

    TED Radio Hour: The women missing from music (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 28:36

Episodes

  • The women missing from music

    TED Radio Hour · Oct 2, 2026 · 50 min

    Manoush Zomorodi talks with soprano Gabriella Di Laccio about forgotten women composers and AI, then airs Nadya Tolokonnikova's TED Talk on Pussy Riot's resistance.

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