Kudos, Anderson Cooper! Two weeks ago, Anderson Cooper 360 was the only Who Talks? cable news program to feature a balanced gender ratio with 49% women commentators. Last week, Anderson Cooper 360 continued its Hall of Fame streak with 43% women.
Read More
Now What? Conference is on April 13-14, and they invite you to “join us and our team of experienced web-hands to navigate the high seas of website maintenance...and ensure that you have what you need for smooth sailing.”
A Hall of Fame gender ratio makes the sailing at Now What? Conference even smoother! 50% of their featured speakers are women.
Read More
This year, the Awwwards boast that they received over 1,000 applications and chose the final 188 through a “lengthy shortlisting process where profiles, experience, and talent, were taken into account.”
Something is missing in that process based on these numbers. With that volume of applications, they have no excuse for selecting a group of 188 judges where only 20 are women.
Read More
All sixteen new additions to the Eisenhower Memorial Commission Advisory Committee are men, and these 16 men have joined a committee that is already overwhelmingly male. With this new addition, the gender ratio for the Eisenhower Memorial Commission's Advisory Committee is just 12% women.
Read More
Welcome to the Super Hall of Fame, AWP! The AWP Conference, hosted by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs, is one of the biggest conferences for writers and publishers in the US. For the second year in a row, they have a Hall of Fame gender ratio for their Featured Readers.
Read More
Code/Media, Re/code’s upcoming conference on February 17th, continues Re/code’s two year streak of Hall of Shame gender ratios. The speaker lineup is 26% women, which is the highest percentage of women speakers Re/code has had since they began organizing events in 2014. In 2016, though, 26% women is hardly a ratio worth celebrating.
Read More
Who better to advise you on your 2016 book purchases than The Millions, a website lauded by the New York Times for being an "indispensable literary site"? We were excited to dive into this list, and our first step was to break it down in the GA Tally. Out of 93 titles, 44 were written by women. 47% of The Millions' novels to look forward to were written by women!
Read More
Women made up the majority of moviegoers in 2014. We need women directors at the table answering these questions. We need a more diverse vision of the future of film that includes the voices of women filmmakers.
Read More
We're happy to see that this critical space for artists will include a Hall of Fame gender ratio this year. 40% of the films in Sundance's 2016 Competition Lineup were directed by women.
Read More