More than half the films featured at San Francisco Green Film Festival 2014 have female directors. This is remarkable in an industry were "women held just 16 per cent of key production roles on the top 250 domestic grossing films last year."
Read MoreVocus Demand Success 2014, a marketing, PR, and social media conference, has 20 female speakers out of a speaker line-up of 42!
Read MorePostback 2014, a mobile industry conference in Seattle, June 17–18, has announced a deeply imbalanced speaker line-up of 19 men and only 4 women. 17%? They can do better.
Read MoreGoogle and Personal Democracy Media are teaming up to offer registration and travel fellowships for women working in civic technology to the 11th annual Personal Democracy Forum, June 5-6, 2014 at NYU’s Skirball Center.
Read MoreAt Personal Democracy Forum 2011 (PDF) in New York City — the leading conference on tech, politics and government — the ratio of female to male speakers was 47% to 53%. Read Morra Aarons Mele's article here.
Personal Democracy Forum 2014 brings together top opinion makers, political practitioners, technologists, and journalists to explore how technology is changing politics, governance, and civil society. So far, their speaker list for the June 5–6 conference in New York City has 58 female speakers and 54 males. As we say at GenderAvenger, first impressions count. Bravo, PDF!
Read MorePacific Standard's "The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30" list by Avital Andrews is 47% women with 14 women and 16 men. A "top thinker" will be featured each day of April. It undoubtedly took a determined effort to produce a remarkable list that is representative of our society.
Read MoreDataBeat, VentureBeat's May 2014 conference, brings together some of the top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs in the field of big data. With only 2 women out of 35 speakers — that's less than 6% women — they can do better.
Read MoreThe New York Times Thomas L. Friedman's Next New World Forum's goal is to discuss "what is happening today and how to thrive in this next new world". Only 3 of 20 speakers are women, though, effectively minimizing our impact on world-changing discussion.
Read MoreHarvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Intelligence Gathering and the Unowned Internet talk had a panel of 6 people with only 1 woman present. Harvard's Berkman Center can do better.
Read MoreSocial Venture Network "…is a community of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs working together to create transformational innovation, growth and impact." 49% of the presenters at SVN Spring Conference 2014 are women!
Read MoreWomen's Media Center's The Status of Women In the U.S. Media 2014 report provides real numbers about the faces of the public dialog: the media. It's a great resource. Check out the infographic based on their report on our blog…
Read MoreSly James, Mayor of Kansas City, looked around the table at city meetings and noticed how few women there were, so he started WE to make "…our local government a conduit for success for the women in this community." Read more about WE on the blog…
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