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Jack White has spoken out against the perception of female instumentalists as a "novelty", saying, "Girls have to work twice as hard to really prove themselves."
Speaking in conversation with Pearl Jam's Mike McCready on SiriusXM radio, the singer was asked about his decision to use an all-female band on several occasions.
"It was a great way to provoke the musicians and provoke the fans watching to just think about something," he said. "I know that when we had The White Stripes, the fact that Meg was female had something to do with the perception of what was going on onstage."
He continued, "When you have all-female acts and female front people, there's a different perception. It's sort of a real shame that if a woman goes on stage with an instrument - guitar or drums or something - then that's a novelty to people; 'Oh isn't that cute?'"
Listen to Jack White discussing sexism in the music industry below
He concluded, "The ultimate shame of it is that girls have to work twice as hard to really prove themselves, they don't have a free ticket... but in the end you get something better than any other run-of-the-mill male musician, because they're really putting it into proving what's going on there, because they're put in a position where they have to."
The full interview with Mike McCready and Jack White will premiere on Pearl Jam's SiriusXM channel on Wednesday, 8 October.
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