History. 3 of 6: the share rose in 2020, 2021 and 2024.
Hunch. Women's share of the top nominations fell to 19.3% this year, the lowest in six years, so it starts from a low point (Billboard).
Resolves on the nominations list on grammy.com on 16 November 2026: we count nominations in Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist by the act grammy.com names, and a nomination counts for women if the act is a woman or an all-women group. YES if that share is higher than the same count for the 2026 awards, NO if it is the same or lower, with Billboard and Variety lists as the backup.
We looked for cases where the Recording Academy brought in a big group of new voters and named the groups it wanted more of: women, people of colour and people under 40. It has chosen members this way since June 2019. We found six Grammy years from 2020 to 2026, and in each we checked whether women's share of nominations in the main categories rose from the year before. A study at the University of Southern California counts this share every year. (Billboard)