A student has launched an online campaign to ensure that women are represented on Edexcel's A-level music syllabus, which currently features 63 male composers and no female ones.
Seventeen-year-old Jessy McCabe noticed the lack of female representation on the exam board's music syllabus after participating in a programme on gender inequality.
She contacted Edexcel to make it aware of the situation, but despite the board's insistence that the music course aims to let students "engage in and extend the appreciation of the diverse and dynamic heritage of music", its head of music seemed reluctant to implement any changes.
McCabe has written an open letter to the education secretary, Nicky Morgan, the Ofqual executive director Ian Stockford and Pearson UK managing director Mark Anderson urging them to change next year's syllabus "so that girls are freely able and inspired to become composers, to enrich the A-level syllabus and to ultimately ensure that women's works are valued, as they should be".
The Guardian has contacted Edexcel for comment.