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> If there's evidence that conferences are deliberately excluding women speakers, then that is a bad thing. The thing is, it's rarely deliberate. It's a subcon
by untog 10y ago
> If there's evidence that conferences are deliberately excluding women speakers, then that is a bad thing.
The thing is, it's rarely deliberate. It's a subconscious bias thing. Which is why people use blind talk submissions - they're evaluated solely on the basis of the content of the talk.
- rwmj 10y agoJust to be clear, blind evaluation of talk submissions is how it should be. BUT if at the end of that you find out that your conference has all male speakers (or all female speakers, or all speakers under 25, or whatever) what should you do about it? I would say you should try your hardest to encourage more people to apply next time. There are loads of great projects for that like Outreachy. What you shouldn't do is decide to fill it up with some "quota people" to make it look diverse.