Gender Diversity in Web Conferences

May 17, 2008

I was doing a little research for a friend and found some nice resources for women speakers. Jason Kottle collected some great stats about representation of women at web conferences. Every year or so, someone asks me a question like this, so I thought I would post a few pointers.

It’s pretty awesome that people are collecting and publishing resources for conference organizers. I find the focused lists most effective:

Flash Goddess has the a great women speaker list , with topics and details about each speakers area of expertise
LinuxChix offers Chix who Speak
BlogHer, of course, has great women who talk about blogging 2007, 2006

Other lists are very broad, and it is hard to see what exactly people are expert at.

Know any lists I missed? Please comment and I will pass them on.

Comments

Livia Labate May 27, 2008

Hi Sarah,

I just learned from Dani Malik about this blog post - I posted something on the same topic a day before: http://livlab.com/thinkia/2008/05/speak-up/

These are great lists, thanks. If you have any suggestions on how to get more women to speak at conferences or what you think of the "at least 1 conference in 2008" pledge, please drop me a comment.

Cheers,

Liv