Exercise 12: 

Last year, 1)_____outrage________ erupted when the president of the Recording Academy,
which gives out the Grammys, said women should, quote, "step up" if they wanted to be
recognized in the music industry 
The road to this year's Grammy Awards show has been 2)___Bumpy
Last year, Lorde, who was the only female nominee for Album of the Year, was not allowed to
3)___perform solo__________. 
Melinda Newman, West Coast editor of Billboard magazine, says the Recording Academy is just
part of a 4)__larger issue___________. 
A lot of the hue and cry from Portnow's remarks really are 5)_reflective___________ of just the
general music industry and the lack of diversity in the general music industry. 
Stacy L. Smith is the 6)___founder and director__________ of the Annenberg Inclusion
Initiative at the University of Southern California 
Twenty-three percent of the 700 songs in our sample had one of 10 male songwriters attached to
them, 23 percent of the songs. So culturally, we're allowing 10 men to 7)__set their
norms___________. 
They were hit on. They were the object of 8)___innuendo__________. They felt personally
unsafe in certain situations. Oftentimes their contributions were ignored or not acknowledged,
even 9)__dismissed___________ by the people they were working with. 
The Grammy organization is hoping that it can emerge from last year's
10)___condemnations__________  as a leader. Tina Tchen is a co-founder of the Time's Up
Legal Defense Fund and was Michelle Obama's 11)___chief of staff__________. Last spring,
the Recording Academy asked Tchen to lead its new task force for inclusion and diversity. She's
well aware that the music industry stats for women are 12 abysmal
Earlier this month, the Recording Academy announced a new program. It's asking any business
or individual who hires 13)__record producers or engineers___________ to consider at least two
women for any project. 
We have taken decades, if not millennia, to get in this position with respect to how women
advance in our 14)__broader culture___________, not just in this industry 
The Recording Academy did expand the number of nominees in its top
15)__categories___________.