{"id":3934,"date":"2015-01-16T09:11:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T23:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2015-01-16T11:46:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T01:46:34","slug":"gender-diversity-in-linux-conf-au-speakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/16\/gender-diversity-in-linux-conf-au-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender diversity in linux.conf.au speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first linux.conf.au was 2003 and it was absolutely fantastic and I&#8217;ve been to every one since. Since I like this radical idea of equality and the LCA2015 organizers said there were 20% female speakers this year, I thought I&#8217;d look through the history.<\/p>\n<p>So, since there isn&#8217;t M or F on the conference program, I have to guess. This probably means I get things wrong and have a bias. But, heck, I&#8217;ll have a go and this is my best guess (and mostly excludes miniconfs as I don&#8217;t have programmes for them)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2003: 34 speakers: 5.8% women.<\/li>\n<li>2004: 46 speakers: 4.3% women.<\/li>\n<li>2005: 44 speakers: 4.5% women<\/li>\n<li>2006: 66 speakers: 0% women (somebody please correct me, there&#8217;s some non gender specific names without gender pronouns in bios)<\/li>\n<li>2007: 173 speakers: 12.1% women (and an order of magnitude more than previously). Includes miniconfs<br \/>\n(didn&#8217;t have just a list of speakers, so this is numbers of talks and talks given by&#8230; plus some talks had multiple presenters)<\/li>\n<li>2008: 72 speakers: 16.6% women<\/li>\n<li>2009: 177 speakers (includes miniconfs): 12.4% women<\/li>\n<li>2010: 207 speakers (includes miniconfs): 14.5% women<\/li>\n<li>2011: 194 speakers (includes miniconfs): 14.4% women<\/li>\n<li>2012: (for some reason site isn&#8217;t responding&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>2013: 188 speakers (includes most miniconfs), 14.4% women<\/li>\n<li>2014: 162 speakers (some miniconfs included): 19.1% women<\/li>\n<li>2015: As announced at the opening: 20% women.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or, in graph form:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" seamless frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1kW2-7TASyeLYUhJZMcUK38pNroZnkB0EFKjVavykxMc\/pubchart?oid=1805219197&amp;format=image\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the historical schedules up on linux.org.au.<\/li>\n<li>my brain guessing the gender of names. This is no doubt sometimes flawed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Update\/correction:<\/b> lca2012 had around 20% women speakers at main conference (organizers gave numbers at opening) and 2006 had 3 at sysadmin miniconf and 1 in main conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first linux.conf.au was 2003 and it was absolutely fantastic and I&#8217;ve been to every one since. Since I like this radical idea of equality and the LCA2015 organizers said there were 20% female speakers this year, I thought I&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/16\/gender-diversity-in-linux-conf-au-speakers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linuxconfau"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-11s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3498,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/08\/linux-conf-au-2014-perth\/","url_meta":{"origin":3934,"position":0},"title":"linux.conf.au 2014: Perth!","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2013-10-08","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been over ten years since the last linux.conf.au in Perth but don't worry, this upcoming January, we're back in Perth for linux.conf.au 2014. 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