This one-day research symposium provides a first-step opportunity to explore, challenge and respond to the focused theme of ‘Women and traditional | folk music.' Areas of discussion will include hierarchies and power dynamics in traditional and folk music; gender and instrumentation; FairPlé – responses, reactions, critiques; strategies of equal opportunity and diversity within traditional and folk music; disrupting/maintaining gender division; empirical research on participation in traditional and folk music; and gender equality in the production, promotion and dissemination of traditional and folk music.