On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 2:58:18 PM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:01 PM, beliavsky--- via Python-list > <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > On Friday, July 10, 2015 at 7:21:14 AM UTC-4, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> With Mandy Waite we have announced all keynotes for EuroPython 2015: > >> 5 keynotes, 6 speakers, 4 women and 2 men. > > > > Your mentioning these numbers makes me wonder if the organizing committee > > is using gender preferences in its selection of keynote speakers. I hope > > not. It is better to choose the speakers who will give the most interesting > > talks and let the demographic chips fall where they may. > > > > I think that's more a matter of having the statistically-curious > brain. In my father's family, there are 5 sons and 2 daughters - does > that indicate gender preference in my reporting, or just an > acknowledgement of a fact?
If 80% of Python programmers and potential speakers at a Python conference are male, the chance of 4 out 6 speakers being female is fairly low if gender is ignored. Some people think gender diversity in tech is so important that there should be gender preferences -- see for example this post by a Python blogger http://ilovesymposia.com/2015/04/03/calling-out-scipy-on-diversity/ . It is plausible that the organizers preferred female keynote speakers. Can the OP comment on this? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
