Wireless Festival has announced an all-female stage following online backlash to the original line-up, which only featured three female artists.
Of the 37 acts announced in January, only three were women – Mabel, Cardi B and Lisa Mercedez.
The disparity in the line-up drew further attention when singer Lily Allen tweeted out a photo of the festival's poster with all the male acts removed.
Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, DJ Emerald, who will be one of more-than-25 female artists appearing on the new stage said: "Shame it's a response to something negative, but it's 100% positive and progressive.
"I think that this stage we're doing could definitely be viewed as tokenism, but what are we going to do? Not have that stage there and have no women performing at the festival?
"I don't think that's the right thing to do."
DJ Emerald also described her shock at seeing the flyer tweeted by Allen.
"I remember seeing the flyer with all the male names taken out, it was so shocking to see that and it really hit home," she said.
"Not even the lack of women, but the volume of men. It was just so overpowering."
The new stage is a collaboration with Rinse FM and Smirnoff Equalising Music, which will also include other female acts such as Girls of Grime, Lily Mercer and AMZ.
Smirnoff Equalising Music is a three-year campaign to increase female representation in club and festival line ups by 2020.
Festival Republic director Melvin Benn also told Newsbeat that Wireless originally approached more than 20 female acts who couldn't perform due to touring and other commitments.
"We'd love to see more female acts on the festival roster in the future, however, there is a bigger industry issue at the heart of the debate on line-up diversity, with fewer female acts available at all levels," he said.
"One of the ways Festival Republic is working to combat this problem is through our ReBalance campaign, which offers female artists studio time, mentorship, a spot on a festival line-up and much more."
Last week, singer and star of Netflix's GLOW Kate Nash spoke to Digital Spy about what she thinks the industry needs to do better in representing women on festival stages.
"It's got to be the people booking the festivals – I don't know this as fact, but I would imagine it's predominantly male bookers, and maybe it's a case of naivety, because they may think they're trying to put on that act that they want or relate to, and they're just seeing men," Nash said.
"And I think that's why we need diversity in all areas of power. There's a lot of talk at the moment of having diversity in film critics. We need women of colour, we need gay people, we need other people that aren't straight white men in these roles.
"If you've got more female, diverse women in these positions, then they're going to be booking more diverse women and the line-up is going to become more equal. Whereas if you continue to just have one type of person in charge of everything, I think they're going to stay the same."
This year's Wireless Festival takes place between July 6 and 8 in Finsbury Park, London.
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