Musican Jack White has decried what he sees is an inequality in the respective perceptions of male and female musicians, according to a Consequence of Sound report.

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"It's sort of a real shame that if a woman goes on stage with an instrument - a guitar or drums or something - that it's almost a novelty to people, like 'Oh, isn't that cute?'" he said in a SiriusXM interview with Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready. The interview will premiere on October 8.

The former White Stripes frontman and guitarist supported his view by citing the case of the band's drummer and his former wife, Meg White.

"I know that when we had The White Stripes, the fact that Meg was female had something to do with people's perception of what was going on onstage," he said.

But the artist, who has since launched a successful solo career, said the discrimination can help female musicians better their craft.

"The ultimate shame of it is that girls have to work twice as hard to really prove themselves. But in the end you get something better than any other run-of-the-mill male musician," the 39-year-old White said. "Because they're really putting it into proving what's going on there a lot of the time, because they're put in a position where they have to," he said.

His beliefs regarding gender perception in music were what led him to enlist an all-female band to occasionally back him, says Digital Spy.

"It was a great way to provoke the musicians and provoke the fans watching to just think about something," he said.

The interview will premiere on Pearl Jam's SiriusXM radio station in the US on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, White's Third Man Records will release his headlining performance at Bonnaroo in June as a DVD and triple-vinyl LP later this month.

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