Welcome to the GenderAvenger Hall of Fame, Internet Week NY! The 2015 #IWNY included 43% female speakers.
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We're thrilled that Y'All Connect is in our Hall of Fame for the second year in a row! Y'All Connect is a blogging and social media conference that takes place in Birmingham, Alabama. Their event this week has a speaker lineup that features 50% women.
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Washingtonian Magazine compiled "Washington’s 100 Top Tech Leaders" — described as a "…list of the most influential and exciting people in the local technology scene" — and it ranked its 100 Washington, DC-local "tech titans".
Only 27 women are listedout of the 100, and, as Meredith Fineman notes in her article, "Tech in DC: Not All Dudes. Here Are Some Women.", seven of those women aren't listed individually but as either part of a female pair or with a male co-founder.
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Fast Company's "The 100 Most Creative People In Business 2015" list consists of 53 women and 47 men. This is a ratio we can get behind!
They pulled members of their list from international circles, and it's inspiring to see what's happening in business on a global scale, especially with so many women present and accounted for.
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Women outlive men, and yet a conference that aims to "improve the health of aging Americans" has only 10% women speakers.
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Cell Symposia's Human Genomics Symposium, which will take place in November 2015, hopes to "foster discussion not only of the findings that have already come from genomics but also of the discoveries that are now within our reach."
What they are obviously not fostering are positive gender ratios among their speakers. Out of 22 listed speakers, only THREE are women, which leaves them with a mere 13.6% women speakers.
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Block Chain Summit invites people to "come visit with Sir Richard Branson on his private island for a set of intimate discussions highlighting critical issues and solutions and to lay out the framework for a world where humankind is fully benefiting from the amazing technology behind the Blockchain." With less than 3% women speakers, apparently Block Chain Summit doesn't think women play an important role in laying out a framework that benefits humankind, and we're not the only ones who noticed…
You can do much better, Block Chain Summit.
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Inside Philanthropy's "Ten Philanthropists From Finance to Watch in 2015" list "…examine[s] some of Wall Street philanthropists we think stand above the rest as the most likely to make waves in coming year." They list 10 men and NO women. Zero women lands you in our Hall of Shame, Inside Philanthropy. You can do better.
Thanks for the tip, Ruth Ann Harnisch!
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According to InsideHigherEd, "For the first time in its history, Harvard University hired an equal number of women and men as junior faculty members." Harvard University's Faculty Snapshot 2014–2015 reports that out of the 62 new tenure-track faculty members they took on this year, 31 of them are women. A 50% gender ratio in higher education is something to shout about, Harvard!
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The 2015 StateScoop50 Awards "…honor the best and the brightest who make state government more efficient and effective." A mere eight of the 50 nominees are women. 16% is not enough women.
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TIME's "The 100 Most Influential People In the World" list is a huge hit with GenderAvengers this year with its 40% female/60% male gender ratio. The list is peppered with such great women as Malala Yousafzai, Anita Sarkeesian, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, but we are biased here at GenderAvenger, and we are most thrilled to see our own Mellody Hobson listed as a Titan. Mellody is the generous founder of our Mellody Hobson Challenge, tripling each $1 donated up to a total of $25,000. Donate now to grow what you give!
Back to TIME's "The 100 Most Influential People In the Word" list, let's celebrate their well-balanced list and help shine a light on all these great women!
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Modern Healthcare's 50 Most Influential Physician Executives and Leaders honorees were nominated for and voted into this list because of their "…individual career paths and achievements". Out of the 50 honorees, only nine women made it onto the list, which means women make up only 18% of Modern Healthcare's list of physician executives and leaders. Modern Healthcare can work to shift that statistic. Encourage them to do better!
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