I want to give a thumbs up to Roy Tennant who evoked this recently (I
was contacted by the organizer off-line since Roy's "line in the sand"
left him a bit perplexed), and the upshot is that the panel will have at
least one woman, maybe two.
Roy, you deserve mega-credit for your role in this, even if it did take
place behind the scenes.
More than that I cannot say without asking various permissions.
kc
On 1/4/13 2:35 PM, Doran, Michael D wrote:
> Although code4lib doesn't typically do panels, I thought this might be of interest:
>
> "A Simple Suggestion to Help Phase Out All-Male Panels at Tech Conferences"
> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/13/01/a-simple-suggestion-to-help-phase-out-allmale-panels-at-tech-conferences/266837/
>
> -- Michael
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>> Ross Singer
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:02 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Diversity of presenters (was bibliotechy's fat
>> fingers)
>>
>> I'm more concerned about the latter ratio than the former (although we
>> could probably question the demographics of the electorate, I think the
>> process is about as open and fair and democratic as we can really hope
>> for). The low percentage of female proposers is really the reason why
>> there are so few female presenters. Add to it that 75% of them are
>> recidivist presenters (which is, honestly, a problem that spans all
>> Code4lib demographics), this doesn't do much to embiggen the tent.
>>
>> I would be interested to see the gender breakdown in the CfP for
>> comparable conferences (LITA National, Access) and if Code4lib's numbers
>> are noticeably lower, meeting with those groups to determine why.
>>
>> -Ross.
>>
>> On 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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