[diversity] RIPE attendee gender trend: Update for RIPE 77 and RIPE 78

Hi Sasha

MAT featured two female speakers out of 6 Katarzyna and Te-Yuan

Names can be tricky


Nina

fre. 24. maj 2019 kl. 09.49 skrev Sasha Romijn <sasha at mxsasha.eu>:

> Hi all,
>
> Following up on this, I did a count of gender ratios of speakers, which
> came to 13-14% women for plenary and WG sessions.
> This seems slightly lower than the ratio of women among attendees.
>
> Details of my count:
>
> Plenary (counting only sessions which I expect have gone through the PC
> process, no NRO/ASO/opening/closing, includes lightning talks):
> - 27 speakers
> - 3 women
> This is 11%, two of the women did lightning talk. For the main (30 minute)
> PC-managed talk slots, it’s only 1 out of 17, so 5.8% women.
>
> WGs:
> Connect: 6 speakers, 2 women
> AP: 2 speakers, 0 women
> Open-source: 4 speakers, 1 woman
> Cooperation: 4 speakers, 1 woman
> NCC-services: 5 speakers, 1 woman
> Anti-abuse: 5 speakers, 2 women
> IPv6: 6 speakers, 0 women
> Routing: 5 speakers, 0 women
> IOT: 6 speakers, 1 woman
> Database: 4 speakers, 0 women
> DNS: 5 speakers, 0 women
> MAT: 6 speakers, 1 woman
>
> Total: 85 speakers, 12 women
>
> I am only counting people on the published agenda right now, not counting
> opening/closing slots. Some of these are not entirely “free” choices, as
> they are done by particular NCC staff. Talks with multiple speakers have
> each speaker counted on their own. Speakers with multiple talks are counted
> once for each talk (usually in different WGs). Gender based on first name
> guess and sometimes looking up the speaker.
>
> Sasha
>
> > On 20 May 2019, at 19:25, Shane Kerr <shane at time-travellers.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I don't think that I published and update of the earlier work done
> tracking trends of gender of RIPE meeting attendees. Here's one including
> RIPE 77 and RIPE 78.
> >
> > Basically we look at first name and country and try to guess the
> attendee's gender based on that.
> >
> > You can see the repository on GitHub which explains the approach, and
> how to use it yourself. I have a separate branch that I'll merge into the
> main page when the meeting is over, which will give final statistics:
> >
> > https://github.com/shane-kerr/ripemtggender/tree/ripe78
> >
> > For RIPE 78, we have a relatively lot of names that the underlying
> genderize.io tool can't even make a guess about: 26 in all, compared to
> 16 at RIPE 77 in Amsterdam and 18 at RIPE 76 in Dubai. 12 of these are
> Icelandic names. I'm happy to hard-code these to the correct values if
> anyone wants to help me with that (I don't know about Tryggvi, Kristbergur,
> or Örvar, for example).
> >
> > As for the overall trends, the trend of more women attending does
> continue but there does not seem to be any sharp increase. I don't think we
> can see a strong signal from when the diversity task force started working,
> although of course the data is very messy, it was not too long ago, and the
> actual numbers depend on a huge number of factors (city the meeting is
> held, quality of the guesses, hard disk prices, and so on).
> >
> > I pushed the date out to find when we might have 50% women attendees at
> the meeting, and using the current eyeballed polynomial match it's 2026 or
> so. While that seems not too horrible, I doubt we will follow that trend
> line and I think that 2026 is a best case. But we remain ever hopeful.
> >
> > As a bonus, I also went through the membership of the RIPE Programme
> Committee since it's inception (I think), as well as the chairs of RIPE
> working groups in roughly the same period. (I used the historical RIPE
> meeting site for PC membership, and slides from the opening plenary with
> pictures of the WG chairs for the WG chair membership.) This picture looks
> bad, since it seems like women are under-represented compared to RIPE
> meeting attendees. This strikes me as an area requiring special attention,
> and it can be done; for example the IETF has taken specific efforts to
> ensure enough diversity in their leadership positions.
> >
> > Anyway, I've attached a few charts so you can see for yourself.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > --
> > Shane
> >
> <RIPE-attendee-gender-chart.png><RIPE-attendee-gender-chart-projected.png><RIPE-leadership-gender-chart.png>_______________________________________________
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