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The picture exemplifies that there can be a king in rap just like there is a queen in R&B. This picture also represents the masculinity in rap music by showing how strong and bold he is.

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This fierce photo of Beyonce gives a confidence boost to woman and lets them know that they can be a queen to. It's a great representation of how women should be seen.

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In this song you can definitely notice all of the masculinity in his voice as well as the language he is using.He also has a lot of males featuring on the song which a lot more masculinity.

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Chance the Rapper ft. 2 Chainz & Lil Wayne - No Problem (Official Video)

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This song by beyonce relates to so many women out in the world that are doing everything to make themselves "pretty" and fit in. This is definitely a girl/ women empowerment song that is very inspirational.

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The article talks about how there is not much gender diversity in the music industry today. There are actually very few main female artist in today;s industry vs. how many men there are.

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The music industry does far better with racial and ethnic diversity. Of the study's 1,239 performing artists, 42 percent were from minority groups, above the United States Census figure of 38.7 percent.

While women's difficulties breaking into the music business are well documented, the starkness of the study's findings is surprising. At the Grammy Awards, for example, the success of stars like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift and Adele may grab headlines. But a vast majority of awards go to men.

Of the 899 individuals who have been nominated for the last six Grammy ceremonies, 90.7 percent were men and 9.3 percent were women. The study found that women were most likely to appear in the best new artist category. (This year, three of the five best new artist nominees are women: Alessia Cara, Julia Michaels and SZA. The only woman up for album of the year is Lorde.)

By looking at the top 100 songs for any given year, Dr. Smith's study excludes thousands of artists who are less commercially visible and also those in many niche genres, where women's influence has sometimes been significant. Dr. Smith defended this methodology by saying that her research focused on "agenda-setting songs and stories" that reach the widest audience.

And in the world of songwriting - music's storytellers and lyric writers - men dominate.

Nine male songwriters, the study found, have been responsible for almost one-fifth of the top songs in the last six years. At the top of the list are Max Martin, who had 36 hits; Drake, with 25; and Benny Blanco, with 22.

The women with the most songwriting credits are Nicki Minaj, with 15; Rihanna, with 13; and Taylor Swift, with 11.

Dr. Smith said that her team planned to undertake further studies of the music industry, including looking at the women in the executive ranks and the "pipeline" of employment in the business.

"Our goal," Dr. Smith said, "is to eradicate inequality in entertainment."

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Gender Diversity in the Music Industry? The Numbers Are Grim

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The music industry does far better with racial and ethnic diversity. Of the study's 1,239 performing artists, 42 percent were from minority groups, above the United States Census figure of 38.7 percent. While women's difficulties breaking into the music business are well documented, the starkness of the study's findings is surprising.

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Gender has actually biased the different artist that I listen to. After thinking about it, most of the artist I listen to are females. There are very few male artists that I listen to. I think this is because they are singing about things that I can relate to. Typically, the artist are singing about some boy, a breakup, or just girl empowerment in general.  Some of the artist I listen to are Beyonce, Demi Lovato, Camilla Cabello, Jhene Aiko, as well as, Frank Ocean, Chance the Rapper, The Weeknd, and Bruno Mars.  I guess the main way I see gender intersecting with each other through music, is when the female artist sings about males and their actions or male artist sing about females and make love songs or sing about breakups as well. I think the music industry is operating this way, because they believe that's the only way they can connect to their audience/fans and keep them listening. In some ways that can be true, because people are going to listen to what they can relate to. I think this is also why we don’t have a lot of female rappers in the industry today, because rap has always been seen as a “male” genre of music. I definitely believe that no specific genre is for any specific gender. I think that artist should be able sing and produce whatever music they want no matter their gender.