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Too few women, too many menToo few women, too many menPosted Aug 16, 2012 9:56 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: Aurora: DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters by aliguori Parent article: Aurora: DEFCON: Why conference harassment matters
Treat it the same as nightclubs. No single males admitted, you have to come with a female friend. If you don't have any female friends, well, that may be an indicator that you don't have enough social skills to attend a conference (or perhaps, that you should spend some time getting female friends rather than wasting it on computer stuff). Invited speakers and sponsors could be exempted from this requirement. Then the sex ratio will be close to 50-50 and the whole atmosphere will be quite different.
I have to admit that it could be hard to find enough women interested in kernel memory management. So the content of conferences might have to change a little bit to attract a better balance of the sexes.
Failing that just have separate conferences for men and women.
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Too few women, too many men Posted Aug 16, 2012 11:14 UTC (Thu) by BlueLightning (subscriber, #38978) [Link]
Or we could all just agree to behave ourselves at conferences. Why is that so hard?
Too few women, too many men Posted Aug 16, 2012 17:00 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
What about spouses who are not interested in IT? What about gay people?
Too few women, too many men Posted Aug 16, 2012 20:42 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
It doesn't have to be your wife, just a female friend. Gay people (of either sex) have those too.
Too few women, too many men Posted Aug 16, 2012 20:49 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] I have female friends. I have enough respect for them that if they wouldn't go to a given technical conference on the basis of its direct interest to them, I wouldn't ask them to be my admission pass.
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