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> #5 ... The article did link this http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Reactions-to-women-speakers http://www.linuxp

by adamors 14y ago

> #5 ... The article did link this http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruce-Byfield-s-Blog/Reactions-to-women-speakers http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Br...

belorn 14y ago
Showing that a problem exist has been done yes. The linked article does it, and has several anecdotal to show that yes, there is a problem. Yet, it doesn't even try to ask the question of why. Is it the cause of low gender diversity in conferences because people do not respect female speakers? If so, have two talks, with two similar experienced speaker of each gender, but only have one written speech with slides. Afterward, confirm which speaker was liked/disliked and check if there was a statistical difference in how men and women perceived the talk. Then run the test a few times to confirm the data. If you are a conference orginizer that want to solve this problem, you should consider trying to do this. At least you should attempt reaching out to the sociology community if one consider that this work is not for technologists. As for derogatory comments made by listeners. Data would be the first step to find out causes. Is there a equal number of complains (ie, proportional to the number of speakers of each subgroup) of racist, sexist, nationalistic, homophobic, and juvenile/elitist comments? If the answer is yes, than any solution to the problem would either have to apply to each type of derogatory comment type, or it would had to address the issue of commenters using derogatory terms in conferences thus fixing the problem at the root. Thus First you identify and confirm a problem. Second you ask the question why. Third you create a theory that include a solution to the problem. Forth and last, you test that theory and preferable do it in a practical way. This is the process used by technologies and academics alike, and is the way to gain acceptance when bringing up problems to the community. (as a side note) I would very much like to see statistics that prove/disprove the idea that women write better talk proposals than men, including the question why if the answer is yes.

by adamors 14y ago

belorn 14y ago

Showing that a problem exist has been done yes. The linked article does it, and has several anecdotal to show that yes, there is a problem. Yet, it doesn't even try to ask the question of why. Is it the cause of low gender diversity in conferences because people do not respect female speakers? If so, have two talks, with two similar experienced speaker of each gender, but only have one written speech with slides. Afterward, confirm which speaker was liked/disliked and check if there was a statistical difference in how men and women perceived the talk. Then run the test a few times to confirm the data. If you are a conference orginizer that want to solve this problem, you should consider trying to do this. At least you should attempt reaching out to the sociology community if one consider that this work is not for technologists. As for derogatory comments made by listeners. Data would be the first step to find out causes. Is there a equal number of complains (ie, proportional to the number of speakers of each subgroup) of racist, sexist, nationalistic, homophobic, and juvenile/elitist comments? If the answer is yes, than any solution to the problem would either have to apply to each type of derogatory comment type, or it would had to address the issue of commenters using derogatory terms in conferences thus fixing the problem at the root. Thus First you identify and confirm a problem. Second you ask the question why. Third you create a theory that include a solution to the problem. Forth and last, you test that theory and preferable do it in a practical way. This is the process used by technologies and academics alike, and is the way to gain acceptance when bringing up problems to the community. (as a side note) I would very much like to see statistics that prove/disprove the idea that women write better talk proposals than men, including the question why if the answer is yes.