Holy sausage party
There are many examples, but this one has to be the most glaring:
Office 2.0
Glaring because there are, like, 3,000 speakers or something ridiculous and only one woman as far as I can tell. Man, talk to Women 2.0 or BlogHer or something. I'm sure they can help you out with 'finding' women in technology. Wow.
Office 2.0
Glaring because there are, like, 3,000 speakers or something ridiculous and only one woman as far as I can tell. Man, talk to Women 2.0 or BlogHer or something. I'm sure they can help you out with 'finding' women in technology. Wow.
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This is as opposed to a holy sausage party, which is an entirely different thing. Those are typically held in Redmond, Sand Hill Road, or Amphitheatre Parkway... ; ) The sausages are chased with Kool Aid.
Correction: fancy Kool Aid.
Tara: I saw this via Matt Homan earlier today and I too could only say "wow." Glaring is right. My jaw literally dropped as I scrolled and scrolled and scrolled through the list.
Maybe there aren't all that many women fascinated with ajaxy widgets with RSS podcasting, and they are a little busy doing work for companies that make enough money to pay them regular salaries?
It ain't all a conspiracy...
You think this the only one? Check out Ajaxian Experience featuring shiny, new Web 2.0 tech.
All,
You’re absolutely right, our panel of speakers would strongly benefit from more diversity. Please help us improve this by suggesting names for potential speakers, and recommending our event to them. I thank you in advance for your contribution.
Ismael Ghalimi
Office 2.0 Conference Organizer
And ladies, hurry, because early registration ends tomorrow! Color me rushing!!
I'm glad they are listening now that Tara is pointing out the absurdity of this. I tried, but perhaps it takes a more level-headed approach. Sausage party. hee. i like it.
Waiting until one is called out on lack of diversity (mere weeks before an event) and then saying you'd love diversity so please offer suggestions is damage control, not a solution.
The solution is for event organizers to care about diversity in their own planning stage, not after they've already spent the time securing and then announcing dozens and dozens of speakers.
Until that starts happening it's lip service, plain and simple.
Boy, just running down the page of pictures made me sad.
"Please help us improve this by suggesting names for potential speakers"
Why? Are you too lazy to go find them yourself? Y'know, all you need to is read some blogs and you'll find some very, very knowledgable women out there who could blow the socks off some of their male counterparts. It's actually not that hard to find women who are expert in this field, so get up off your butt and get on with it. Don't put the onus on us to come to you, when you are the ones who should be doing the hard work coming to us.
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