Accepting Billboard's Woman of the Decade award in 2019, Taylor shared how she's battled sexism in the music industry:
"I saw that people love to explain away a woman's success in the music industry, and I saw something in me change due to this realization. This was the decade when I became a mirror for my detractors. Whatever they said I couldn't do is exactly what I did ... Basically, if people had something to say about me, I usually said something back in my own way."