Last year, the keynote speakers consisted of 7 men and one woman, with only 15 women invited as speakers to the summit. At a conference of this scale, with 76 men on panels, the Atlantic Council had 12.5% women represented in their keynote and only 16% overall.
Read MoreSalesforce, a global platform for customer relationship management, has announced the annual Dreamforce conference with 40% women speakers in the line-up!
Read MoreEvery year, Food & Wine magazine editors travel the country to seek out “America’s most brilliant up-and-coming chefs,” handpicking 11 promising cooks for their highly anticipated Best New Chefs list. This year, only one of those brilliant chefs is a woman, a disappointing decrease from the 2015 Best New Chefs list, which featured only two.
Read MorePersonal Democracy Forum (PDF) Founder Micah Sifry: "It is great to be in the GenderAvenger Hall of Fame for the third time, but honestly I would prefer to be known as in the Hall of Normal!"
PDF is "the world’s leading conference exploring and analyzing technology's impact on politics, government, and society." This annual event kicks off this week on June 9th and continues its Hall of Fame streak with 57% women speakers! This is the third year that PDF has had a gender-balanced speaker ratio.
Read MoreWelcome to the Super Hall of Fame, Social Innovation Summit! For the second year in a row, this major event features a gender-balanced lineup of speakers.
Read MoreAccording to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, “On a global scale, women produce more than half of all the food that is grown.” On June 21st, ReWork’s The Future of Food will explore “breakthrough technologies, scientific discoveries & new business models for the future of food production, distribution & consumption”…with only 16% women speakers.
Read MoreWomen are the population most impacted by home healthcare technology, yet Politico’s upcoming panel “Outside, In: Bringing Health Home: Tech and Patient-Centered Care” features ZERO women.
Read MoreSUCCESS! After two years of featuring The New York Times Cities for Tomorrow in the GenderAvenger Hall of Shame, we’re happy to see that the 2016 lineup qualifies for the Hall of Fame!
Read MoreThis year, we’re getting in front of the conference by pushing for change while there is still time to add women’s voices to the lineup. Today, the 2016 speaker list reflects another Hall of Shame ratio. However, the event is not until October, and the lineup is already extremely close to limbo status. Just 1 more woman speaker would bring WSJ.D Live into limbo (between 30 and 40%), and 3 more women would bring it into the Hall of Fame (over 40%).
Read MoreWelcome to the Super Hall of Fame, Fast Company! For the second year in a row, Fast Company’s "Most Creative People in Business" list achieves a Hall of Fame gender ratio.
Read MoreIntelligence Squared U.S. (IQ2US) is a series of debates "founded in 2006 to restore civility, reasoned analysis, and constructive public discourse to today’s often biased media landscape."
Despite their concern about "biased media," they have an obvious and significant bias when it comes to the gender of their debaters. In 2016, IQ2US has hosted six debates and featured only 25% women experts.
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