If that didn't make the double-standards abundantly clear, she added in another interview, "One thing I've experienced as a woman on this path… is I can be meeting the same radio station people or people in the industry as a male artist but there's an extra pressure on me to be accommodating or nice."
It doesn't help that as it is, country music already seems to be a male-dominated field—one that has made little progress in balancing the playing field. Yes, there are the country darlings like Carrie Underwood and Maren Morris, but these women continue to be outnumbered by the Luke Bryans and Keith Urbans of the world.
Plus, men like radio consultant Keith Hill continue to spread the idea that women don't sell as many records as their cowboy counterparts. Or, as Hill explained it, "I play great female records, and we've got some right now; they're just not the lettuce in our salad. The lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Keith Urban and artists like that. The tomatoes of our salad are the females."
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