International Alliance for Women in Music

The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) is an international membership organization of women and men dedicated to fostering and encouraging the activities of women in music, particularly in the areas of musical activity, such as composing, performing, and research, in which gender discrimination is a historic and ongoing concern. In the U.S. the organization operates as a 501(c)3 non-profit. The IAWM engages in efforts to increase the programming of music by female composers, to combat discrimination against female musicians, including as symphony orchestra members, and to include accounts of the contributions of women musicians in university music curricula and textbooks.

The Journal of the IAWM, published in four issues per year, includes research about women in music, continuing the tradition of the AWC News/Forum and the ILWC Journal. The Journal of the IAWM is a first hand resource on information of women composers and has been cited as such on research articles concerning women composers. Another journal founded by the IAWM, Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture," is now edited and published by the University of Nebraska Press.

IAWM Congresses feature compositions, performances, and research papers about women in music. IAWM members have been active in broadening the music curriculum at colleges and universities, by offering courses dedicated to the roles of women in music. Advocacy by the International Alliance for Women in Music has contributed to the inclusion of women composers in college music history textbooks. In another effort toward ending gender discrimination, the IAWM led successful boycotts of the American concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in the 1990s.

The IAWM plays an important role in the careers of many women composers.

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