{"id":2457,"date":"2014-04-29T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2014-04-29T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T15:37:02","slug":"chart-of-the-week-gender-imbalance-in-atheist-beigeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2014\/04\/29\/chart-of-the-week-gender-imbalance-in-atheist-beigeland\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart of the Week \u2014 Gender Imbalance in Atheist Beigeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently mentioned having concerns about the imbalance in presenters at atheist conventions in the region. It lead to a conversation about what the ideal ratio should be and how far we have to go. Today&#8217;s chart is an attempt to address the second question\u00a0in a single graphic:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2458\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/04\/Lanyrd_Atheism_20131.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2458\" alt=\"Real world atheist conventions in 2013 (Source: Lanyrd)\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2014\/04\/Lanyrd_Atheism_20131.png\" width=\"499\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Real world atheist conventions in 2013 (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/topics\/atheism\/2013\/\">Lanyrd<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Number of women presenters are on the horizontal axis, men on the vertical axis. Overall, women rated 36% of the speaking slots when excluding the <a href=\"http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/2013\/women-in-secularism-2\/\">Women in Secularism<\/a> event, which by itself drives the overall figure up to 39%. The only two general-interest atheist conferences to feature more women than men were the <a href=\"http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/2013\/carolinas-secular-conference\/\">2013 Carolinas Secular Conference<\/a>\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/2013\/kentucky-freethought\/\">2013 Kentucky Freethought Convention<\/a>. Out of 25 conferences included here, nine fell in the 20%-30% range, which seems to me a bit low. Such a heavy imbalance creates the unfortunate impression that public speaking is more of a guy thing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not here to rage about this imbalance or call anyone out, and I would ask that you don&#8217;t take these data and start hammering on individual conference organizers. Better far to suggest useful solutions, and I do have at least one to suggest. Something I noticed while putting this together was that the same handful of names kept cropping up time and again, so much so that I&#8217;ve seen most of them in person once or twice or thrice already.\u00a0We need to buck that trend by cultivating local talent from the grassroots up, giving non-professional speakers a chance to make a name for themselves. By expanding the pool of potential speakers, we can diversify future lineups in terms of gender, ethnicity, expertise, and content.<\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently mentioned having concerns about the imbalance in presenters at atheist conventions in the region. It&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,18,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-damned-lies-and-statistics","category-feminism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}