UK’s performing arts industry ‘inhospitable to parents’, research warns

Long hours, lack of flexibility and last-minute scheduling driving parents, particularly mothers, from industry

The performing arts industry in the UK is inhospitable to parents" and falling far behind other industries in supporting women who have children, according to research.

The report, titled the Motherhood penalty", criticises the industry for failing to consider how it might adapt to better accommodate parents, with the result that many, in particular women, drop out.