NYT Cities for Tomorrow conference, April 21-22, 2014, lists 13 speakers, 3 of whom are women. Half the population has something to say about our future… include us!
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The new Hockey Night in Canada lineup does little to reflect the diversity of its audience with its new 100% male crew. The times, they are not a-changin' all that much on Canada's television.
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BlissDom Canada, a Canadian blogging and social media conference, has seen a majority of women speakers over each of its several years.
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In 2013, SXSW, an annual music, film and interactive conference and festival, established this new rule for the 2014 festival: "There are thousands of extremely qualified women in the media industry. If you are organizing a session with at least three total speakers, then at least one of these speakers must be female."
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The Wall Street Journal's ECO:comics conference, April 2-4, 2014 has 20 featured participants. Only one is a woman. This conference is billed as "The premier forum for leaders at the intersection of business and the environment." Surely, there is more than one woman at this intersection.
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At the Dow Jones Global Compliance Symposium, April 22-23, 2014, the featured keynote speakers include 8 men and only 1 woman, and women account for only 4 of the 22 remaining panelists listed. This is not the face of America, and it is surely not the face of global corporate compliance.
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There is a petition circulating because the all-male 15th ICQC program has ignored the 300 available "female scientists holding tenured and tenure track academic positions or equivalent positions in industry and other research establishments pursuing research in theoretical and computational chemistry, biochemistry, material science, as well as theoretical molecular/atomic physics and biophysics." Read Colleen Flaherty's full article here.
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The TEDxBaltimore January 2014 conference featured 20 speakers… 9 of whom were women. "Bringing together the world's leading thinkers and doers" TEDxBaltimore recognizes women as naturally equal in that category.
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LAUNCH Festival's speaker page only has 14 women in the 75 listed speakers, and 5 of those were past speakers, not present. Having an overwhelmingly male set of presenters at 86% seems just a touch unbalanced, even in male-dominated industries.
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At the ONA13 conference in Atlanta in October 2013, an annual conference that brings together more than 1500 professionals from the world of journalism and technology, the speaker lineup included 49% women.
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The 11th Annual World Health Care Congress, 7–9 April 2014, lists 44 keynote speakers, only 10 of which are women. A conference that claims to bring together "forward-thinking health care leaders" to "address industry challenges and share successful strategies" isn't very forward-thinking in its keynote roster.
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