We hear about a ‘class ceiling’ in Australian arts. Cultural employers should measure diversity like corporates do

‘When Pulp sang 1995’s Common People about the slumming-it art student knowing “if (she) called (her) dad (she) could stop it all”, it was sharp criticism of rich-kinds indulging proletarian cosplay.’ Photograph: Richard Saker/The Observer

News fresh from the Department of the Obvious this week: the Australian Financial Review reports that “class can have a bigger effect on your chance of being promoted than gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation”.

What has long been suspected is now quantifiable. It demands to be measured and addressed, far beyond corporate employment. In how we think about infrastructure. How we make culture.