Researcher Lara Pellegrinelli and students at The New School compiled data from more than 200 jazz education programs for the 2021-22 academic year. The study, which was published by the Berklee College of Music earlier this week, measures the imbalance of female-identified employment in higher education. The report — “Jazz Counts: Measuring the Jazz Faculty Gender Gap in Higher Education” — shows that out of more than 3,000 academic and staff positions, 15 percent were held by female-identified educators. The program explicitly explores how equity can be reached within the jazz world and how gender bias manifests within that ecosystem. “It’s been willful negligence because the culture needs transformation — both in the performance aspect as well as in jazz education,” Carrington said.