Conférence typique, selon Ryanne Hodson.

Un problème bien répertorié:

Kottke aux États-Unis

Au Québec: Patrick, Miriam, Michael, Hugh, Martine, etc.

Raisons pour tenter d’accroître la diversité:
Why conference organizers should diversify their speaker lists

It generates more people who want to come to your conferences.
It adds diversity of thought and learning — we love our speaking elders, but we’ve heard them plenty. Give us new voices
It discovers new possibilities — that make your conference better
It shows you care enough to take a risk: that’s an attractor

Toujours les mêmes (bonnes?) excuses:
Worker Bees Blog, post by Elisa Camahort

-Excuse: “C’est ouvert à tous!”
Solution: Etre pro-actif (femmes ET hommes).
Faire des liens en dehors de son réseau.
Publiciser les évènements avant de booker tous les participants aux panels.

-Excuse: “Ce sont des sujets qui n’intéressent pas les femmes.”
Premièrement: s’assurer que c’est bien le cas.
Deuxièmement: penser à élargir les champs d’intérêt des présentations.

-Excuse: “Je vais être la seule femme.”
Solution: Ajouter des participantes dans les panels, mais aussi pour les keynotes.

-Excuse: “On ne connaît pas de femmes dans ces domaines. Elles ne sont pas dans nos réseaux.”
Solution: Listes de suggestions de présentateurs:

Speaker’s Wiki

List of women speakers for your conference

-Excuse: “On a demandé à trois femmes connues, mais elles ne pouvaient pas.”
Solution: Si une femme n’est pas disponible, demandez-lui de vous suggérer quelqu’un dans son réseau.
Éviter d’inviter les mêmes personnes à répétition. Elles ne peuvent pas être partout!

-Contraintes familiales.
Solution: Service de garde.

-Contraintes financières.
Solution: Taux d’inscription variables.

En conclusion:
Un sondage Web serait-il utile?
D’autres suggestions?

AJOUT POST-PRÉSENTATION
The Twelve (or so) Step Program for Conference Speakers and Organisers, par Suw Charman.

If the women think that it’s the organiser’s fault for not looking for more women, then we risk becoming passive, quietly waiting our turn. If the organisers think it’s women’s fault for not putting themselves forward, then they risk being lazy, and waiting for women to turn up on their doorstep. It becomes a tragedy of the commons, everyone blaming everyone else and no one doing a damn thing about it.

So, what do we do? I personally believe that the answer lies with all of us. We are ultimately responsible for our own lives, and our own experiences. As a woman, I am responsible for my own attendance at conferences, for submitting papers, and for assessing the invitations that I get. No one put me on some secret Speakers List - indeed if you look at all the lists of women speakers that have been drawn up these last few days, you’ll see I’m not on any of them. Instead, I went through a process of figuring out how to get to speak at conferences, and although I’m still learning, I think it might be helpful to share some of that knowledge here.

I also want to give organisers a heads up, but I’ll do that below. You people are also responsible for your own experience but you also, at the conference at least, help shape ours. You have a responsibility to pull your fingers out of your collective ass and start trying harder.