Crain's New York Business Class of 2015 40 Under 40 lists "…individuals [who] represent the most talented, driven and dynamic professionals under the age of 40 who are working in New York City today." What is it that really impressed us with this list? The great gender ratio! 17 of the 40 gifted people listed are women. That's 42.5% women. Nice list, Crain's!
Read MoreThe New Yorker published 47 covers over the course of 2014, and only THREE of those were drawn by women. That's only 6%. Cartoonist Saul Steinberg died in 1999, and yet his work was featured on the cover twice in 2014. 6% represents a truly abysmal ratio, The New Yorker, and it lands you squarely in our Hall of Shame.
Read MoreThe New Yorker's 90th anniversary issue has 19 cartoons, all of which are authored by men. 0% of the cartoons are by women.
The New Yorker has an ongoing track record that strongly favours male cartoonists, and Avenger Jessica Esch has done a brilliant job of documenting their ongoing lack of women.
The New Yorker can do much, much better.
Read MoreThe 2015 IMG World Congress of Sports will feature "…keynotes and interviews are complemented by featured presentations and roundtables on the most pressing issues in sports business as well as Ideas That Move Us Forward sessions that transcend sports."
According to their Speaker Faculty, though, those pressing issues don't involve women in sport, because out of 50 listed speakers and moderators, only 4 are women. 8% represents a deplorable gender ratio, World Congress of Sports. Do better.
Read MoreReading & Leeds Festival 2015 is kind of low on female music acts. Really low. Take a look at the full poster on the right, and then take a look at the poster on the left showing only the female acts:
Out of 93 listed acts on their poster, only nine are female. NINE. That brings the gender ratio of the Reading & Leeds Festival 2015 promotional poster to a whopping 90% male acts and only 10% female acts. Come on, Reading & Leeds Festival, you can do so much better than this.
Read More55 satellite locations will also be hosting Edit-a-Thons between March 7 and 9 to add and edit hundreds of Wikipedia entries about women. Here's to Art+Feminism's Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon at the MoMA and women staying in the picture!
Read MoreThe Aspen Security Forum aims to "to answer critical questions about national and homeland security", but they apparently don't intend to include women's voices in finding those answers at their Aspen Security Forum 2015 event, July 22-25. So far, they have 10 speakers listed, and none of them are women. Aspen Security Forum can do better.
Read MoreRe/code's Code/Media conference — which takes place in Laguna Niguel in February 17–18, 2015 — "…will bring together 350 of the most influential minds in media and technology for two days of intimate gatherings and game-changing discussions. On stage and by your side." Part of what gives people influence is visibility, and Code/Media gives that visibility primarily to men: only 3 out of the 20 listed speakers are women. 15% women represents a terrible gender balance.
Read MoreAt a time when America's top 100 companies' executive committees are 83% men, 14 of Lyft's 30 executives are female. We look forward to hearing from them! Lyft has an experience-based growth strategy, and because so many of their clients and drivers are women, gender diversity is seen as a key component of their growth. Lyft knows how to do it right. Here's to being our latest GenderAvenger Hall of Fame inductee, Lyft!
Read MoreThe DLD (Digital-Life-Design) conference claims to be "Europe's hottest conference invitation" that brings together "the most influential opinion-makers, industry leaders, start-ups and digital giants to Munich." It is deeply disappointing to see that out of 185 speaking spots on schedule, they only had 38 spots filled by women. Less than 21% women is far from gender balance, and this poor showing has landed them in our GenderAvenger Hall of Shame. Encourage them to do better!
Read MoreSpotify's Diversify weekend hackathon has gained a spot in our GenderAvenger Hall of Fame, and it is one of our favorites. For Diversify, "…instead of hoping to achieve diversity amongst our attendees, [they] decided to make it a core requirement." Not only that, but they shared at length how they created an event with a focus on diversity. Out of 40 participants, they had 17 women and 23 men. Congratulations on reaching 43%!
Read MoreForbes' "30 Under 30: The Food & Drink Masters Changing How We Eat" list has only 7 women out of the 36 people listed. That's only 19% women. Are we honestly to believe that 81% of the "young prodigies changing American consumption" today are men? Please do better, Forbes. Women's voices don't grow where they are not seen or heard.
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