Carrie Bishop asks why we see the same people – men – speaking at conferences:
…it’s not about women being better qualified to speak on the basis of their gender – no one wants the idiot quota to go up at events. Rather, we want good quality speakers that reflect a diversity of opinion and it’s impossible to get that with only one demographic slice. Women often have a different take on things (not better, not worse, just different) and I like to hear different perspectives. The more demographically mixed an audience is, the better for challenge, difference of opinion, different cultural assumptions, and energy.
She sets out a few possible solutions for getting more women’s voices heard. What do you think?
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Josephine Grahl
Sharon O'Dea
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2 comments
10/11/2009 at 12:23 am
Synder Indulgence
I’ve been to a great deal of conferences with women present. Speakers and their gender can often mirror the industry they speaking to…and that is a big part of it sometimes.
27/02/2010 at 6:07 pm
gapingwhole
You need to deal with your spam problem, methinks.
And the problem probably also depends on the discipline of the conference