I did back-of-envelope math last year, based on the attendees list,
and my calculations showed that 54 out of 244 attendees were female,
so about 22%. This # is surely off as there were about 25 names that I
was unable to put a gender with. I counted these as male to get a
conservative estimate.

I believe this to be an increase from previous years, or perhaps
comparable to 2011. I'd guess all 3 percentages (attendees, proposals,
presenters) have been steadily increasing at pace since 2006. We can
probably estimate that the 2012 conf was 22% women, 2013 proposers
were 16% women, and presenters will be 12% women.

It would be interesting to do a longitudinal study of all 3 numbers
and some nifty data vis alongside results of the survey being
discussed. In addition to increasingly all 3 numbers, our goal should
also be reducing the (albeit slight) discrepancy across the ratios.

-Corey

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Bohyun Kim <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> By any chance, do we have the numbers of the previous code4lib conference attendees by the female/male ratio?
>
> ~Bohyun
> By any chance, do we have the numbers of the previous code4lib conference attendees by the female/male ratio?

> ________________________________________
> From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Ross Singer [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:20 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [CODE4LIB]
>
> On Nov 27, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Chad Nelson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Rosalyn,
>>
>> If we are only 17% women, when we are subset of the broader Library
>> community, which is majority women, then we are doing something wrong. And
>> that deeper question, what do we need to do to encourage more women to
>> participate in the community, to make the community as a whole appealing
>> and safe, is the question I am really asking.
>>
>
> I'm not entirely sure I agree with this.  The issue is less about where the number is now than where it's going (and how quickly).
>
> Is our (completely hypothetical) 17% up from 2006 (or whenever), when Code4lib started?  If so, then I'm less inclined to panic about the statistics and just continue working towards making the community amenable to more groups.
>
> If it has plateaued or regressed, then, yes, we need to be extremely concerned.
>
> -Ross.
>
>> Chad
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Rosalyn Metz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> I think first we would need to do a survey of how many women are in the
>>> community.  if it turns out that this community is only 17% women then
>>> we're on target.  who knows, maybe we're actually 10% women and we're way
>>> above target.  in which case the real question might be "how do we get more
>>> women in tech."
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Chad Nelson <[log in to unmask]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ooops. Hit the wrong key.
>>>>
>>>> So, about our presenters...
>>>>
>>>> Is it a problem that only 4 of our 33 presenters are women? Or that only
>>> 16
>>>> of 95 proposers were women?
>>>>
>>>> Is there something this community needs to do to encourage more women to
>>>> feel like they can and should speak / propose sessions?
>>>>
>>>



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