It’s been nearly three years since the fall of Harvey Weinstein forced the gates of the #MeToo movement wide open, instilling courage in untold numbers of women to tell their own stories about inappropriate or illegal behavior in the workplace. Now it may be time to focus a little more on what we lose, as a culture, when women have no choice but to abandon work they love because the behavior of a male superior has made a job untenable. On the Record, directed by Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, takes positive steps in that direction, suggesting that modern music itself might have been vastly different if the music business of the 1990s had been less hostile to women. Growing up, Drew Dixon—one of the anchor figures in On the Record —had always loved music. In the mid-1990s she landed her dream job, as director of A&R at Def Jam Recordings, the hugely influential label co-founded by Russell Simmons. She was poised for success from the start: In 1995, a soundtrack she’d exec...