So I just got an invite to this meeting:
Looks interesting. Not that I work in the field. But I decided to check it out.
So I went to the website.
Blech.
Here are screenshots of the “Top Speakers”
32 speakers. 30 of which are men. *
That comes to 6% female, 94% male. Not a good thing. Shame on VIB Conferences and shame on the sponsors
I plan to send complaints to these sponsors to let them know I do not believe they should be sponsoring a meeting with such a clear gender bias.
I also am going to register the meeting at Gender Avenger.
* I realize it is not always possible ot identify people’s gender from names and appearances. I looked up. I looked at all the more detailed descriptions of the speakers to see how they were described (as in, what pronouns were used).
UPDATE 11-28-2015
//storify.com/phylogenomics/conference-series-from-viblifesciences-feature-mos/embed?border=false//storify.com/phylogenomics/conference-series-from-viblifesciences-feature-mos.js?border=false[View the story “Conference Series from @VibLifeSciences feature mostly male speakers #GESB16 #ABLS16” on Storify]
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