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:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Ross Singer
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 9:02 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
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 <chadbnel...@gmail.com> 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
kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
ph: 1-510-540-7596
m: 1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet
