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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? -- Karen Coyle [log in to unmask] http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet