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In which I rant about "we only choose the best conference proposals and we can't help it if they're mostly from men" #NewMR #MRX
I've had this post on my mind for many months now but I've been hesitant to write it. It seems today is the day.
If you've been following my speaker gender ratio post, you'll see that I keep adding to the list conferences where fewer than 40% of speakers are women. Today, I added several to that bucket. On top of that, Ray Poynter just pointed out that the nine new and genuinely deserving fellows of the MRS are all, you guessed it, men. Have women not made any important contributions? I highly doubt it. So today is the day.
There are many different reasons for conferences to over index on male speakers but I'd like to address one reason in particular. Conference organizers regularly say they choose the abstracts that will be the most interesting and intriguing for their audience. If that means that most of the speakers are men, then so be it. Quality wins. As it rightly should.
Men do not propose better topics than women. Men do not have better ideas than women. Men do not propose more innovative nor more important ideas than women. This is truth.
How do I know? I'm lucky that I get to go to a lot of conferences. I've been in the audience for literally hundreds of talks. I've seen lots of men give horrible talks. But, as expected, the vast majority of talks given by men are fine. Not horrible, not great, just fine. Most male speakers are awkward or forget what they were going to say or don't speak loud enough or rush or go over or under time. Most men are basically acceptable speakers. Such is the law of averages.
To be clear, most women are also basically acceptable speakers. I, for one, know I'm an awkward speaker who regularly forgets what I want to say. If the goal of conference organizers is to choose great speakers, well, I'm not seeing it. They could have randomly selected speakers by putting submissions in a hat and the quality of speakers wouldn't decrease very much. It could even increase because the gems who keep submitting awkward proposals might actually get chosen.
And when it comes to the topics of the talks, most talks that men give are fairly ordinary. People like to think that THEIR talk is unique and innovative and offers a previously undiscovered point of view in their field but that's usually not the case. The vast majority of talks given by men cover material that has already been addressed in twenty other talks at twenty other conferences and in twenty other white papers and fifty other blog posts. New material is exceedingly rare. Our industry simply doesn't move very fast.
To be clear, most women also cover material that has been addressed in twenty other talks at twenty other conferences. Again, the topics I present are rarely truly new and innovative. If the goal was to choose innovative topics, I'm not seeing that either. Once again, we could randomly choose talks with a magician's top hat and the degree of innovation would… Well, actually, the talks might be more innovative simply because people who stink at bragging would finally have their papers chosen.
Even better, random choosing based on top hats would increase the demographic diversity of speakers, and ensure speakers better reflect the diversity of submissions.
My point is that men and women are similarly generally ok speakers. Men and women give similarly ordinary talks. If submission acceptances for men outweigh acceptances for women, something is terribly wrong with how organizers identity "greatness."
Maybe it's time to completely rethink how conference proposals are reviewed. Maybe it's time to use only blind submissions where names and companies are removed. Maybe it's time to find a way to remove writing style gender cues that unconsciously affect our perceptions. Maybe it's time to consciously review proposals with the mindset that some people brag and exaggerate the importance of their work whereas other people stick to the facts and discuss their findings within the confines of appropriate generalizations. Maybe it's time to give the magician's hat a chance – remove the obviously horrid submissions and then put every submission in the hat.
It could only improve things. Rant done.
(By reading this far, you hearby commit to submitting to at least one conference this year. Thank you for being part of the solution. )
Insight: a force for good #MRSlive @TweetMRS #MRX
Live blogged at MRS in London. Any errors or bad jokes are my own.
Moving more with cancer by Emily Fu and Justin Webb
- 77% of people with cancer are not active to recommended levels which reduces consequences of treatment, reduces comorbigiteis, reduces disease progression, decreases mortality
- Imagine you have cancer and what would keep you from being more active, physical abilities are not as influential as you think, people have a huge knock to their confidence, feel depressed and vulnerable and frightened
- Social support and social pressures are influential on behaviour, family is all about sit down and rest be safe, they fear injury or psychological damage
- There is social stigma around cancer, around scars, and being self conscious, cancer is invisible for many people
- For some types of cancer, finding a bathroom is a huge problem for getting enough activity, physical symptoms of cancer and surgery are problematic
- People who were active planned it around treatment cycles, built things up slowly, didn't get disheartened if they couldn't do as much as they wanted
- Need to reeducate via media – don't take it easy if you've got cancer, get moving! Let people know exercise is safe. Created a 'Get Active Feel Good' pack for people and families
Creating a buzz around gender equality by Philly Desai and Nasir Nansir
- Gender discrimination in Nigeria – violence, leadership, decision making
- Five year program working directly with young people, empower through self-esteem, increase positive attitudes, change the rules by securing laws and budgets that respond to women's needs
- Must influence wider society through marketing communications types of activities
- Quant study to explore attitudes and social norms, what do I believe, what do others believe, what attitudes and behaviora do not match up
- Violence against women is widely condemned but common in practice
- Younger people support women's having more leadership but they expect resistance from society
- Needed to create a brand identify which appealed to young people but does not alienate men
- [by the way, these notes are being written as my friend and diversity advocate @RayPoynter sits on an #AllMalePanel in the next room. He must be horrified. 😦 ]
- Created a radio drama, created posters and billboards promoting diversity and 50/50
- Www.iampurple.ng – website targeting young people on mobile [bet this site is truly mobile friendly!]
- Site has 1 million visitors and 30 000 registered, have celebrities and popular people driving engagement
- Men must be seen as partners, need to message to appeal to men, 'our strength is not for hurting'
- Craft messages that appeal to subconscious of target audience
Learning for tomorrow by Jackie Hughes and Catriona Ferris
- It's hard for big brands to "do good"
- #Lifebouy campaign is about washing your hands more often to stay healthy which means buying more soap
- It has to be at the heart of the brand purpose, functionality is no longer enough, brands with a purpose are growing faster, need to create a purpose
- We learn by doing and experiencing, context, role playing
- Let's create a classroom, students, and bring experts to spark inspiration, bring insight in, get creative work going
- Did one in London and one in Mumbai, brought in typical experts from India and Vietnam
- What is the meaning of education? More blackboards? More books? More kids?
- There was playtime, colouring, books just like a real classroom
- Spoke to moms and kids, spoke about real concerns about attending schools, fear of violence and rape, conflicts with kids working schedule, teenage pregnancy, as well as their hopes and dreams
- Sending kids to school is like setting them free
- They wanted to activate the first day of school
- Led to unicef campaign about the first day of school, first day of school means they are so grown up, one of the most important days of their lives, it's on their way to their profession in life, it's giving them a beautiful future, these are the first steps
- Persia is helping 10 million children get a quality education. #FirstDayOfSchool
A behind the scenes look at choosing speakers for the Worldwide Conference on Qualitative Research, by Susan Abbott #MRX #Diversity
Hi readers,
This is a guest post from my colleague Susan Abbot who was on the speaker selection committee for the Worldwide Conference on Qualitative Research. After reading an earlier blog post of mine about diversity of speakers, Susan decided to run the numbers on the conference and see how the conference did. These numbers can be seen in context with others on my conference comparison post. I would be thrilled if other conferences followed suit because this type of transparency is how we can really determine where any problems may lie.
We received multiple proposals from the same speakers, in varying combinations. Any given name was only counted once, and counted in the place first recorded, which would have been in the order received.
Some proposals had more than one speaker. We counted only primary and secondary speakers.
Our keynote speaker is female. We did a search, and invited this individual to speak, we did not solicit proposals. Factors considered: wanted an expert on futures, wanted an expert based in Europe, wanted someone who would connect with our audience, wanted to be within our budget. We looked at three speakers from one organization as finalists, two males and a female, and felt the woman would connect better because she had some qualitative research background. She is not included in the numbers shown below.
Proposals received from:
|Primary speaker gender
|Secondary speaker gender
|Total count female
|Total count male
The final program line-up is as follows.
I would note here that some people who were offered a speaking slot (including both males and females) declined the offer, for a variety of reasons.
As well, I believe one male secondary speaker was added after the session was accepted, and I didn't try to take that into account.
|Primary speaker gender
|Secondary speaker gender
|Final Program Female
|Final Program Male
We have a speaker committee of three people who have done a lot of conference planning work over the years.
In addition, I was involved in the initial discussions with the committee, and Kendall Nash, my co-chair, also participated in some of the final selections.
A consideration in forming the committee was to have at least one European (which we did, from the UK).
We did actively solicit speaker proposals through social media, through e-mail announcements with partner organizations, and so forth. The committee also invited noteworthy individuals to submit, and we made announcements at other industry events. Basically, looking for the best and brightest.
The initial review of proposals was blinded as to name and organization. It is difficult to do that entirely, because you see trademark phrases and styles in the proposal content that make it easy to guess, however I would say we worked hard NOT to guess. Where people recognized the content, or had close friends or associates with a proposal, they disclosed this and/or recused themselves from discussions.
I have to say that we didn't really give gender a lot of consideration in discussions.
After an initial independent rating of each proposal by the committee members, any session rated below a cut-off was not given significant further consideration.
We DID give region/country quite a bit of consideration, as we wanted to have a truly global program, which we do. Since we had many more proposals of merit than we had speaking slots, we did not have to sacrifice anything to get this global mix.
In our final deliberations, we considered our collective knowledge of the individual's skills at presenting, as well as how often we had seen them on a conference platform recently. We also tried to ensure that the same people are not on the podium every year, even if they are really good speakers, because they already get a lot of air time for their ideas.
So, I am pretty thrilled to see that gender does not appear to have been a factor in our deliberations.
Gender is clearly a factor in how people choose to engage with QRCA – our volunteers tend to skew female, and I think that chapter meeting attendance also skews female. I'm not sure about overall membership, and there is really no way to know about participation in the workforce, as there are a lot of people who do qualitative and other marketing research that are not members of any organization. My hypothesis is that conference speaking is a more appealing way for males to participate in the industry than volunteering is.
Insight and Innovation
The gender split in #MRX conferences: 2016 edition
Rating conferences on gender ratios is not easy. Though we may want every conference to be 50/50 male/female, it doesn't always make sense.
- Not all industries are balanced on gender. For instance, qualitative researchers are much more likely to be female than male, and some regions in the world have very different employment rates for women and men.
- Men and women don't necessarily submit at the same ratio. For instance, maybe 70% of the submissions were male and thus it makes sense that 70% of the speakers were male.
- Men and women don't necessarily agree to speak at the same rate. A conference may offer equal numbers of acceptances to men and women but then it's up to men and women to actually accept those offers. Conferences with 10 speakers can instantly drop from 50% female to 44% female if just one women declines the invitation.
- Normal variation means that sometimes a conference will have more men or more women. That's just how numbers work and you can't fault an organization because one time, one of their conferences wasn't perfectly equal. But when 'random' variation across every conference is consistently in the same direction, you've got to wonder what's happening behind the scenes.
Regardless, the best way to be aware of whether there may be gender issues is to actively measure reality. My methods aren't perfect. I can't always tell the gender of a speaker from their name and so I manually check names in LinkedIn and other times I leave that speaker out of the equation. I never know the submission rate by gender and so I can't defend a conference that has few female speakers even if they had zero submissions from women. If you can correct my numbers, then I absolutely welcome your help. And, if you've been to a conference that I haven't attended, do let me know the numbers and I'll add them here.
TOTAL (Excluding AAPOR/WAPOR): 1845 men, 1096 women: 37% female
The Grades
A: Ratios between 47% and 50% – Huge round of applause for any conference that lands here!
- TTRA June (Colorado): 194 speakers, 78 men, 89 women (cannot identify gender of many names) = 53% female
- TMRE October (Florida): 126 speakers, 65 women, 61 men = 52% female
- TMRE Consumer Insights May (California): 12 men, 12 women, 50% female
- IIR Insight Tech: 22 speakers, 11 men, 11 women: 50% female
- AAPOR/WAPOR June (Austin): 1463 speakers, 718 men, 745 women = 49% Male (Yes, you read that correctly. 745 female speakers.)
- Quirk's Event February (USA): 126 speakers, 64 women, 62 men = 49% Male
- LIMRA June (Florida): 39 speakers, 19 women, 20 men = 49% Female
- NewMR February (Global online): 27 Speakers, 14 women, 13 men = 48% Male
- MRIA June (Canada): 63 speakers, 33 men, 30 women = 48% Female
- EphMRA June (Frankfurt): 45 speakers, 24 men, 21 women = 47% female
- AIMRI Under30 February (New York): 9 speakers, 5 men, 4 women = 44% Female. Although this percentage doesn't strictly belong here, with 9 speakers it can't get any more equal.
B: Ratios from 42% and 46%
- MRS Health February (London): 26 speakers, 12 men, 14 women = 46% male
- PMRG May (USA): 37 speakers, 17 women, 20 men = 46% female
- IIR New Face: 22 speakers, 12 women, 10 men = 45% male
- Qual360 February (Berlin): 32 speakers, 14 women, 18 men = 44% female
- Media Insights February (Florida): 56 speakers, 24 women, 32 men = 43% female
- IIeX Health April (Philadelphia): 40 speakers, 17 women, 23 men = 43% female
- NEMRA May (Massachusetts): 14 speakers, 6 men, 8 women = 43% male
- ARF Audience Measurement: 58 speakers, 25 women, 33 men = 43% female
- NEMRA May (New England): 14 speakers, 6 men, 8 women = 43% male
- WCQR March : 43 speakers, 18 men, 25 women = 42% male. One of the conference organizers ran the numbers and determined that the ratio of submissions from men and women was the same as for speakers. You can read details about their speaker selection process here.
- MRA ISC May (New Orleans): 43 speakers, 18 women, 25 men = 42% female
- CASRO CRC, October: 72 speakers, 42 men, 30 women: 42% female
C: Ratios from 37% and 41%
- MAGHREB SUMMIT January (Casablanca): 17 speakers, 10 men, 7 women = 41% female
- MRS Travel March (London): 22 speakers, 13 women, 9 men = 41% male
- ESOMAR LATAM April (Bogota): 32 speakers, 13 women, 19 men = 41% female
- ESOMAR APAC May (Tokyo): 51 speakers, 20 women, 31 men = 39% female
- Omnishopper July (Chicago): 67 speakers, 41 men, 26 women: 39% female
- AMSRS September (Melbourne): 61 speakers, 37 men, 24 women: 39% female
- BHBIA May (London): 39 speakers, 24 men, 15 women: 38% female
D: Ratios from 32% and 36%
- MRS National March (London): 94 speakers, 34 women, 60 men = 36% female
- MENAP Forum March (Dubai): 25 speakers, 9 women, 16 men = 36% female
- ESOMAR congress September (New Orleans): 72 speakers, 26 women, 46 men = 36% female
- CASRO Tech (New York): 11 speakers, 7 men, 4 women: 36% female
- PMRC Europe October (Berlin): 25 speakers, 16 men, 9 women: 36% female
- Shopper Brain, June (Chicago): 23 speakers, 15 men, 8 women: 35% female
- OmniShopper International, November (London): 31 speakers, 20 men, 11 women: 35% female
- CXfusion April (Las Vegas): 53 speakers, 18 women, 35 men = 34% female
- ARF ReThink: 141 speakers, 48 women, 93 men = 34% female
- Febelmar Februrary (Brussels): 21 speakers, 14 men, 7 women = 33% female
- MRA CEO January (Florida): 12 speakers, 4 women, 8 men = 33% female
- Sentiment Analysis Symposium July (New York): 15 speakers, 5 women, 10 men = 33% female
- Shopper Brain Amsterdam (June): 21 speakers, 14 men, 7 women: 33% female
- IIeX NA June (Atlanta): 194 speakers, 63 women, 131 men: 32% female
F: Ratios <32%
- MRS Kids January (UK): 29 speakers, 20 women, 9 men = 31% male
- MRSI February (India): 35 speakers, 24 men, 11 women = 31% female
- IIeX Europe March (Amsterdam): 115 speakers, 36 women, 79 men = 31% female
- IIR Analytics: 42 speakers, 13 women, 29 men = 31% female
- ARF ReThink March: 140 speakers, 96 men, 44 women = 31% female
- MRMW Europe: 54 speakers, 37 men, 17 women: 31% female
- IIeX Latam: 68 speakers, 47 men, 21 women: 31% female
- MRweek: 32 speakers, 22 men, 10 women: 31% female
- MRIA QRC January (Toronto): 15 speakers, 11 women, 4 men = 27% male
- CASRO Digital March (Texas): 46 speakers, 14 women, 32 men = 30% female
- CX Fusion: 53 speakers, 35 men, 16 women: 30% female
- BVM Kongress April (Berlin): 28 speakers, 8 women, 20 men = 29% female
- Market Research Exchange, Florida (May): 41 speakers, 29 men, 12 women = 29% female
- AMA Analytics February (Arizona): 18 speakers, 5 women, 13 men = 28% female.
- NMWF April (Dubai): 36 speakers, 9 women, 27 men: 25% female
- Insight Show MW May (London): 123 speakers, 30 women, 93 men: 24% female
- CX week May: 25 speakers, 6 women, 19 men = 24% female
- MRMW APAC March (Malaysia): 39 speakers, 8 women, 31 men = 21% female
- ESOMAR Big Data: 27 speakers, 22 men, 5 women: 16% female
- Text Analytics Event April (Chicago): 19 speakers, 3 women, 16 men = 16% female
- SampleCon January (USA): 40 speakers, 6 women, 34 men = 15% female
- Predictive Analytics World April: 28 speakers, 4 women, 24 men = 14% female
Upcoming ratings: ESOMAR congress September, AMSRS congress September. (Please let me know of others.)
What can YOU do?
- Submit! You can't complain if you don't join the cause. Take the plunge and submit your first proposal ever this year! Make it easier for conference organizers to find you by taking the first step yourself.
- Encourage! Look to your left and look to your right. Have your neighbors submitted to a conference yet? Well, maybe right now is the perfect time to encourage them to just do it!
- Demand diversity! When you notice that conference speakers reflect a very narrow group of people, point it out and ask for more. Organizers want to give you want you want. But first, you need to tell them what you want. And, still, sometimes organizers don't realize what is happening.
- Recommend! Remember that awesome speaker you saw at the last company meeting? At the last chapter event? Email your favourite organization and let them know you found a speaker for them. Organizers can't ask them to speak if they don't know who to ask.
What can conferences do?
- Look at submissions from a new point of view. Realize that people from different walks of life write differently and that some proposal styles may have greater appeal to you. Notice how much the writing style is affecting your choice of content and remove your style preferences from the equation. Recognize that some equally high quality proposals brag and exaggerate, while others are factual and modest.
- Ask sponsors to promote diversity. As conference organizers, only you know when the collection of speakers has veered away from a diverse group. Take a proactive approach and let sponsors know you care about representing the entire community. Ask sponsors to send great speakers who don't fit into traditional boxes – really old, really young, differently abled, non-white, women.
- Ask for recommendations. Not just of the most popular speakers who know other popular speakers. Ask your fringe speakers about other awesome fringe speakers.
- Go to Twitter. There are tons of lists of women speakers and experts. My Lovestats account has several lists you can use. WIRe has a list a women speakers. Just ask.
- Share your numbers. When it turns out that one of your conferences seems skewed, let people know that the submissions were also skewed. It's not necessarily a bad thing if 30% of your speakers were female if only 30% of your submissions came from women.
- Be the change we want to see. Even if your speaker ratio matches the submission ratio, if it's not mostly equal, do something about it! Don't wait for submissions. Hunt for awesome speakers who didn't submit.
Demand that your conferences be Diversity Approved! (Tweet this post!)
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Because it's 2015: I challenge you to make your #MRX conference Diversity Approved
Demand that your conferences be Diversity Approved! (Tweet this post!)
When Canada's new Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was asked why his cabinet was 50% male and 50% female, his answer was simple. Because it's 2015. Such a simple answer to a long standing problem.
As I look back over 2015, I see that "because it's 2015" didn't apply to every market research conference. Some conferences had speaker lists that were 70% male. Some conferences had speaker panels that were 100% male. No conferences had attendee lists nor industry lists that were 100% male let alone 70% male.
There are many reasons that men might be over-represented as speakers, but few that are acceptable.
- Random chance. As a lover of statistics, I accept that random chance will create some all male panels. But since I've never seen an all female panel, random chance is not what's at play here. If you'd rather see the math, Greg Martin calculated the chance of having all male speakers here. It's not good.
- 70% or more of submissions were from men. That also is an acceptable reason. If women aren't submitting, then they can't be selected. So on that note, it's up to you ladies to make sure you submit at every chance you get. And don't tell me you're not good enough to speak. I ranted on that excuse already.
- You haven't heard of any women working in this area. This excuse is unacceptable. You can't look for speakers only inside your own comfortable friend list. Get out of your box. Get online. There are tons of women talking about every conceivable industry issue. Find one woman and ask her for recommendations. You can start here: Data science, Marketing research, Statistics, Tech.
- The best proposals happen to be from men. This excuse is also unacceptable. It demonstrates that you believe men are better than women. You need to broaden your perception of what 'better' means. Men and women speak in different ways so you need to listen in different ways. It's good for you. Try it.
- Women decline when we ask them to speak. It's a real shame particularly if women decline invitations more often than men. But any time a woman declines, ask her for a list of people she recommends. And then consider the women on that list. No women in the list? Then specifically ask her if she knows any women.
- It's a paid talk and they only sent men. Know what? It's okay to remind companies that their panel isn't representative of the industry. You can suggest that they send a broader range of people.
- We didn't realize this was a problem. Inexcusable. Diversity has been an issue for years. People have been pointing this out to market research conferences for years. The right time to fix things is always now.
When was the last time you prepared a sampling matrix balanced on age, gender, and ethnicity and then were pleased when it was 70% female, 70% age 50+, and 90% white? Never, that's when. You stayed in field and implemented appropriate sampling techniques until your demographics were representative. This is absolutely no different.
So, to every conference organizer out there, ESOMAR, CASRO, MRA, MRIA, ARF, MRS, AMSRS, ESRA, AAPOR, I challenge you to review and correct your speaker list before announcing it.
- What percentage of submissions are from men versus women? Only when submissions are far from balanced is it acceptable for the acceptance list to be unbalanced.
- Are there any all male panels? Are there any all female panels? (By the way, all female panels talking about female issues do NOT count.)
- Are more than 55% of speakers male? Are more than 55% of speakers female?
- Is the invited speaker list well balanced? There is zero reason for invited speakers to NOT be representative.
- Did you actively ask companies to assist with ensuring that speakers were diverse?
If you can give appropriate answer to those questions, I invite you to publicly advertise your conference as Diversity Approved.
Will you accept this challenge for every conference you run in 2016? Will you:
- Post the gender ratio of submissions
- Post the gender ratio of acceptances
- Proudly advertise that your conference is "Diversity Approved"
Demand that your conferences be Diversity Approved! (Tweet this demand!)
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I'm behind on conference tallies this year but I think this is a better way to do it anyways. I'll continue to add all conferences to this page as the year progresses. Do note that I mainly attend quantitative research conferences so other types of conferences may have different results. Also note that, for the most part, quantitative research conferences don't generally have a gender bias in terms of attendance – men and women are about equally likely to go.
These counts represent the number of speakers listed in the program not including any changes made after the fact. They are also based purely on my interpretation of people's first names or their photo. If I didn't know whether a name was likely male or female, I ignored it. Thus, counts will not accurately reflect reality. If you are able to provide a more accurate tally, I'd be more than happy to correct my numbers.
In addition, these numbers say nothing about the gender split that submitted applications to speak, and the gender split of those who were invited to speak but declined.
AAPOR Hollywood (To come)
MRIA Toronto 33 male, 43 female, 43% male
Given that the entire history of MR has been ridiculously in the other direction, this is a welcome and delightful change. The normal curve dictates that sometimes there are more male speakers and sometimes more female speakers. I do believe this is the FIRST EVER conference on the female side of the normal curve.
MRA San Diego 30 male, 24 female, 56% male
I'll call this a reasonable gender split. It can't be 50/50 and this is a nice distribution.
IIeX Atlanta 126 male, 53 female, 70% male
Ok folks. What happened here? This is too far from 50% for me to be okay with it. All the round tables were led by men. All the DIVA award judges were men. Here are the options: Skilled women aren't in digital, tech, and innovation areas of MR. Women are choosing not to speak at this conference. Women weren't sought out to speak at this conference. Which problem area can YOU address at the next conference.
ESRA Reykjavik 415 male, 412 female, 50.2% male
In other words, if you doubted whether there are enough female speakers in the survey/research/polling niche, I can tell you that there are at least 412 of them. Most of the women I heard speak were good speakers and they knew their material. If you need a speaker, get the speaker list from this conference.
Quirks's Event 40 female, 49 male, 55% male
QRCA Orlando 25% male
Well, QRCA is a tough call. Everyone in the research industry knows that qualitative research is dominated by female researchers. But what exactly is the true ratio? Is it 25% male, 5% male, or 35%? If you've got those stats, i'd love to put them here so that readers can judge for themselves whether the speaker ratio here is acceptable.
AMSRS Sydney 57% male
CRC St. Louis 23 men, 18 women; 56% male. (Early program)
ESOMAR Dublin 98 men, 59 women; 62% Male. (Early program) We're still a couple of weeks away from the official event so things may change but as of today, the program is leaning male dominated. Not good Esomar!
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As always, I like to take a look at the speaker mix for conferences. Sadly, IIeX didn't quite make the cut. With 25 female speakers and 49 male speakers, the ladies were 34% of the speakers.
Why. Tell me why.
I know it's not because the speaker organizers didn't try. I know it's not because there aren't qualified female speakers. So what it leaves is this.
- Women think they aren't qualified (Sorry, there are plenty of qualified women)
- Women think they have nothing new to talk about (Sorry, women have plenty to talk about)
- Women are too busy (Sorry, you're no busier than anyone else)
- Women are terrible speakers (Sorry, you're no worse than anyone else)
- Women aren't submitting speaker proposals —- Well?
- Women are turning down speaker requests —- Well?
So ladies, the next time a request for proposals comes around, submit a proposal! Think about that awesome project you just worked on and turn it into a presentation. Ask a great speaker to mentor you so you feel more comfortable as a speaker yourself. Make the time to do it. It's good for you and your career. Diversity comes in all forms and you are one of them.
Submit. Speak. Make me proud. 🙂
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If you haven't yet seen the book "I can be a computer engineer" starring Barbie, you're in for a disappointing treat. The title sounds great but when you read that Barbie needs two boys to actually do the programming for her, you'll start shaking your head.
Fortunately, to the rescue comes Feminist Hacker Barbie, a website where you correct all the words to the story. However you see fit. You're welcome.
Given the backlash, some people have taken the meme to the complete other extreme making the boys look stupid, the point has been made. Barbie CAN be a computer engineer. By herself. Without being rescued by someone else.
Follow the tweetstream here.
Do feel free to share the link to YOUR Hacker Barbie and I'll include it here.
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And now it's time to check on the gender ratio of presentations at ESOMAR, a little task I try to do at every conference I attend. Since I am not an expert in first names around the world, I've only inferred gender from names where I am fairly confident that it represents a man or a women.
For all the speaker/author names listed in the ESOMAR programme, 42 were for women and 60 were for men. Thus, out of 102 names I could infer gender from, 41% were for women. That is definitely a bias towards male presenters, certainly not as bad as it has been in decades past, but a bias nonetheless.
The usual suspects include:
- Ladies, did you submit a proposal? If not, WHY NOT? Your ideas are as just as good as anyone else's. If you don't submit, you will not be chosen. Get in the game and make your voice heard!
- Ladies, did you make your proposal sound as confident as possible? Other presenters are certain that their idea is the most astonishingly new and innovative idea out there. Even if you think your idea is old and boring, you need to present it with as much confidence as you possibly can. THAT's how your proposal will be chosen.
- And of course, maybe the conference committee was biased towards proposals from men? Very likely not, but it's always possible. Reasons we don't like are still reasons to think about.
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I always like to evaluate the speaker gender ratio at conferences. This is my first time at a World Association of Public Opinion Researchers, and so a quick check is definitely in order.
I've got the conference guide in front of me and I've coded the first names of all the first speakers for each paper. Given the much higher rate of attendance by non-English speakers, my ability to infer gender is greatly reduced. Since there are many names I am unable to code, my numbers may not generalize well. Here goes.
Of the 108 first names I could infer from, 47 were female names and 61 were male names. If you can't divide 47 by 108, that's 44%. In my books, that's a slight bias towards male speakers.
At least one of these is the cause:
1) fewer women than men submit papers
2) women don't brag enough in their submissions and so they aren't chosen
3) women's submissions are less likely to be chosen due to sexism of the judging panel, whether conscious or unconscious. (Everyone is sexist is one way or the other, be honest with yourself.)
If I had to guess, I'd say #1 is 50% of the problem, #2 is 45% of the problem, and #3 is 5% of the problem.


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Not known much about his early life or even who he is but at some point after he had read the book about the Hundred Year War, he felt sorry for every monks that were get killed by the Fire Nation. He's decided to make the Fire Nation pay for what did they done to the Air Nomads at the Hundred Year War by pushing them to be like them at that time, nearly extinct and let only person survive who he choose to be the Avatar.
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With the release today of the NWSL schedule, speculation on how many matches national team players will miss due to World Cup duty enters full swing. Most national federations have yet to formally announce residency plans, however there is enough available information to draw some conclusions.
The Houston Dash will likely have 7-8 players away at the World Cup with three different nations; United States: Carli Lloyd, Morgan Brian and Meghan Klingenberg; Canada: Erin McLeod, Alyssa Chapman and Lauren Sesselmann; and Brazil: Rosana and Poliana.
The United States Women's National Team has matches throughout much of March at the Algarve Cup and on April 4th against New Zealand in St. Louis. They then have a break until they start their warm-up schedule for the World Cup on May 10th against Ireland in San Jose.
Towards the end of last season as the league and the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) looked towards planning for 2015 and the World Cup, there was some indication that U.S. national team players would be back and forth between their NWSL teams and national team training. On this week's The Mixxed Zone podcast, Dash head coach Randy Waldrum indicated that the USSF has concluded that the wear and tear of traveling back and forth might be damaging to the players. Instead, players will join their NWSL teams for the start of the season and go into national team residency around the end of April or early May.
If that plan holds true, the three U.S. national team players on the Dash will miss most of preseason training, but will be present for the three matches in April including the home opener on April 10th against the Washington Spirit and possibly the May 2nd home match against FC Kansas City.
The situation for the Canadian players is a little different; Canada has a friendly against France on the outskirts of Paris on April 9th, so McLeod and company will miss the Dash home opener. Canada's World Cup warm-up schedule has not yet been confirmed, but expect a similar schedule to that of the United States. In between, Waldrum indicated on The Mixxed Zone that Canada tentatively wants players to travel back and forth for NWSL games and national team training. Discussions continue to try to convince the Canadian Federation that this is counter-productive for the players but no decision have been made as of yet. In any event, the Canadians will likely be available for the two away matches against Sky Blue on April 18th and the Boston Breakers on April 26th and possibly the May 2nd home match.
The Brazilians are in a similar situation as the Canadians; Brazil plays a friendly at Germany on April 8th so Rosana and Poliana (if included in the side) would not be available for the Dash opener. Thereafter, Waldrum indicates that there has been some talk of Brazil going into residency straight through the World Cup, however he speculates that this will not be the case and that the Rosana and Poliana may be available for the two April away matches.
As a result, it looks likely that Dash fans will have the chance to turn out to BBVA Compass Stadium on April 10th to see Lloyd, Brian and Klingenberg along with the rest of the team. All of the national teamers (with the possible exception of the two Brazilians) look set to play in the two April away matches and there is an outside chance that Houston fans will be able to give their World Cup players a home send-off on May 2nd.
Thereafter, the Dash will be without the national team players for the remainder of May – 3 matches in total – as well as all 3 matches in June assuming the USA, Brazil and Canada all reach the quarterfinals. There is a break in play for the Dash after June 27th with their next match at BBVA Compass Stadium on July 12th after the World Cup is completed. Barring call ups for friendlies, the national team players should be available for all 10 matches following the conclusion of the World Cup.
That leaves national teamers missing out on preseason and anywhere from 5-7 matches which is better than the originally anticipated 6-10 matches. Integrating players at the start of the season after missing out on preseason training with their teams will be a challenge, as it will post-World Cup when teams have been playing with another set of players for two months. However, the absence of players during the preseason does make it easier for teams to get a good look at a larger number of potential amateur players. Teams are limited to a roster of 30 players in the preseason, however the absent national team players will not count against that total (unlike the regular season when they will count against the 20 player roster). Waldrum has taken full advantage of that fact to invite a large number of undrafted and unattached players in for the preseason.
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Visited Outpatients with my son, waited along time (almost an hour), waiting room busy.
Whilst I understand the need to have more than one clinic per waiting room it maybe better not to mix pediatric and elderly patients clinics.
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Can I Apply Edible Image To Fondant Before Placing On Cake?
Decorating By BatterUpCake Updated 28 Aug 2014 , 2:02am by shannon79
A friend wants the cake below...I am guessing that one was airbrushed. I would have to have the image printed and apply to fondant. I think (never used these images before) it would be easier to put on flat fondant then on the cake....but then I wonder about cracking and other disasters. I realize the skulls would stretch some... What would be the best way to do this...
That is a super cool cake. I would never put an image on first. It would not work. The process of getting a smooth outcome will ruin the images. Maybe you could print a bunch of those images up...place on the cake after you have put on the fondant...then add the airbursh as a touch up to blend/hide the edges? I would cover the cake in black fondant...then put on the images...then add the airbrush highlights. Good luck.
I don't do airbrushing (yet!) And it costs me 8 to get an image printed....I guess I could put as many single skulls as I can fit on and 8X11 then cut them out and overlap it is only going to be a 6" single tier...this is just the pic she sent....Thanks...I figured it wouldn't work to put the image on first but I was hoping someone would know of some super cool trick
AYou could add two image sheets at put the flowers along the seam which would run around the top circular edge
So add one circular image to the top after the fondant has been placed then add one wide strip all around the side
And then add something along the seam to hide it, like those black frangipanis
Some edible image paper is really thin and much better placed on white fondant. But then some is thicker and can be placed on any colour.
Well I got 16 skulls printed o an 8x11 sheet. I am only doing a 6" cake since it will be a small dinner. I am making a large black rose as the centerpiece and I am going to paint the edges of the petals with silver. I was thinking silver beads around teh bottom...not enough time to do too many flowers
well I am cutting out the little skulls and putting them all over. But you can see a definite edge for each one...I thought they would dissolve once they were wet but it looks like I stuck stickers on my cake! Still looks good from a couple of feet away but up close...uggghh. Ran out of skulls so I am waiting for the cake store to open.
AThat looks really good :-)
Well when I delivered it I overheard from the bathroom "that is the best cake I ever tasted!" Thank you MacsMom!!!
This is the method i was talking about, but use two images and pipe in between, but i thought you could add black roses rather than piping, of course the images on the top and sides won't line up with one another unless you can find a program than can make a cylindrical image, but if you have a border of black roses the two images will be rather separated so no one would probably notice.
well that would have probably been easier but i didnt really want to pipe a border at the top this time...thank you for the compliments!
AI think you did an awesome job! I did a really close up look on my iPad and think it looks really smooth. Great job! Where did you find your skulls....Google search?
yep....then I placed them on a word doc in a couple different sizes and had the cake store make the edible sheet. I put a glaze on it so the edges turned out to be less noticeable. Thank you. I appreciate your feedback!
Where can you get fondant sheets printed? Someone just asked me if i could do the wedding cake version of it on line. Can you get large sheets printed? also what did you use for a glaze over it?you did a great job!!


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Main Street Loft condo's unit 202 very clean with immediate occupancy. Great location at 11 Mile and Main St. Featuring stainless appliances, upgraded cabinets and counters plus wood floors. 2 bedrooms and two full baths, in-unit laundry. Nice balcony, fitness center, gated and covered parking with two assigned spaces. Minimum one year lease, 1.5 months security deposit with satisfactory employment letter and credit report with completed lease application. Association fee is included in rent. Tenant pays gas and electric.
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- Subdivision
- Main Street Lofts Condo
- Total Finished SqFt
- 1,079
- Above Grade SqFt
- 1,079
- Garage
- 2.0
- Garage Desc.
- Attached, Basement Access, Direct Access
- Water
- Municipal Water
- Sewer
- Sewer-Sanitary
- Year Built
- 2005
- Architecture
- 1 Story Up
- Home Style
- High Rise, Loft
- Association Fee
- $400
Rooms and Land
- MasterBedroom
- 14 x 13 Entry
- Bedroom2
- 13 x 12 Entry
- GreatRoom
- 20 x 16 Entry
- Kitchen
- 12 x 10 Entry
- Heating
- Forced Air, Natural Gas
- Appliances
- Dishwasher, Disposal, Dryer, Microwave, Refrigerator, Stove, Washing Machine
- Interior Features
- Cable Available, Elevator/Lift, High Spd Internet Avail
- Exterior Materials
- Brick
- Exterior Features
- Outside Lighting
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Baseball is held to a higher standard than other sports.
For instance, newspapers only print All-Star teams showing the highest paid baseball player at each position even though NBA players make as much money. Columnists only complain about baseball postseason games starting too late and ending past midnight even though the NFL's marquee game, Monday Night Football, starts later and ends later every week. People regularly complain about baseball games lasting too long even though pro and college football games all last longer.
And the latest example is the steroid controversy.
Between 5 and 7 percent of steroid tests among major-leaguers were positive last year and based on the international outrage you would have thought 50 to 70 percent had tested positive for heroin.
Among the many "concerned'' citizens was former Olympics vice-president Dick Pound, who called baseball's steroid policy a "complete joke'' and an "insult.'' Gee thanks, Dick. That means so much coming from the person who has so clearly and completely removed steroids from the Olympics.
Pound's associate with the World Anti-Doping Agency, Dr. Gary Wadler, called baseball's announcement "probably the blackest day in the history of sports.'' Wow. I guess that leaves the '72 Munich Olympics, the old color barriers in virtually every sport and Dave Bliss' little act at Baylor this summer in a dogfight for the silver medal.
Are steroids (and other performance enhancers) a problem in baseball? Yes, of course they are (though I don't think they are used nearly as much as Ken Caminiti speculated last year). But why is the full outrage reserved for baseball when so many other sports haven't been able to solve the problem, either?
Let me ask you this. Look at the players on a baseball team. Then look at the players on a football team. Then tell me, which sport do you suspect has more players taking performance enhancers that are stronger than Wheaties? Yes, yes. I know, I know. The NFL tests for steroids. It suspended six players this season and reportedly just caught four Raiders using THG. But if you think the NFL catches everyone and has cleaned everything up, you probably think Howie Long deserved an Oscar nod for "Firestorm,'' too.
Not to sound like a flack for Bud Selig, but last week's testing result actually was welcome news. Because it met the minimum requirement in the latest union contact, from now on, at least some players will be punished for cheating. In fact, some players even considered not taking the test last spring, knowing that would count the same as testing positive. That's because they wanted their fellow competitors to be tested.
And now they will.
If a player tests positive twice, it can mean a 15-game suspension, and while that doesn't meet Dick Pound's tough standards (I think he wants them shot, or at least forced to watch ballroom dancing at the Olympics) it is a stiffer punishment than it seems. Any player who is outed for steroid use will be in for a season of hell from the fans when he returns, an intimidating aspect that doesn't really apply to players in other sports, where they are rarely alone in the spotlight.
I'm not burying my head in the sand on this issue. I would prefer baseball's steroid policy be stronger than it is. I have no illusions that the current policy can remove steroids and other performance enhancers from baseball. I know it won't even come close. It may discourage their use but it won't eliminate them by any stretch.
But I'm also realistic. As long as there are $5 million, $10 million, $25 million and $150 million contracts at stake, athletes will seek an edge in their performance regardless of the health risks. And no matter how many tests you create to catch them, some will find ways to outsmart you. It will happen in baseball just like it happens in track and football and cycling and whatever other sports where strength and endurance can help you compete.
Baseball is held to a higher standard than other sports. That can be both good and bad, flattering and infuriating. But before singling out baseball and blasting it for dragging its feet on this issue, just look at the athletes in other sports and ask if those sports have really done all that much better.
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A fan identified as Korede just dropped us a quick email in response a giveway we posted few hours ago (See it at first give away).
Content of the email Korede sent less than an hour ago:
"Please don't lower your standard, the fact that others are doing this does not make it morally ok. I think giving away free money is an insult to some of us. Many people will because of this go and open different banks accounts and make it a full time job. I don't see any reason for this. I saw your site last year around August and I got glued to it, I visit at least 3 times daily. Don't copy what others are doing now, invent something better and don't do giveaways. Occasional giveaways on birthdays or festive period is still acceptable but weekly no."
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Jane Fonda recently opened up to Oprah Winfrey about her battle with cancer during an interview for Oprah's Next Chapter.
75-year-old actress called this new phase in her life as the 'third act' which she is thoroughly enjoying and finds it "exhilarating."
Fonda while discussing about her experiences with cancer said that she is not afraid of death.
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Fonda was discovered with breast cancer in November 2010. She went through a procedure to remove the tumor, which turned out to be non-invasive and she announced to be cancer-free in August 2011.
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EDP Renováveis establishes a MoU with EDP Brasil for the acquisition of a 45% stake in EDP Renováveis Brasil
Madrid, November 27th 2014: EDP Renováveis, S.A. ("EDPR") and EDP Energias do Brasil, S.A. ("EDP Brasil") have signed a Memorandum of Understanding ("MoU") envisaging the acquisition by EDPR of 45% of the share capital of EDP Renováveis Brasil, S.A. ("EDPR Brasil") controlled by EDP Brasil.
Following this transaction EDPR will control 100% of the share capital of EDPR Brasil. The purchase price to be paid will be agreed between the parties in consideration of the value attributed to EDPR Brasil and its subsidiaries and certified by a fairness opinion issued by a renowned financial institution.
Completion of this transaction is subject to regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions, and is expected to occur until the end of the first half of 2015.
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I did this for the September Scrap Your Pet Challenge. These were two mama strays abandoned at my grandma's house that were both pregnant. I took them home with me out of sympathy that the kittens would need loved on in order to find homes. Within just one day the first mama had five babies and six days later the other mama had five. The mamas would share nursing duties. When the kittens were eight weeks old homes were found for eight of them. The mamas and two babies were taken to a shelter and did get places in homes! It was such a wonderful experience and I would do it again in a heartbeat!! I journaled the experience onto three pages and placed it with a tab under the lower rectangular cardstock that has the title and which i had elevated with foam squares so it fit better. The other side of this two page lo has a pic of each kitten...i will try to share it too.
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| SplendentGoddess chapter 1 . 9/24/2014
LOL, so wait... All along Miroku and Inuyasha were the ones plotting for him to get both Kagome and Kikyou? But what's in it for Miroku? He couldn't have been allowed to watch or he wouldn't have been surprised to hear the news. Ah but then, Miroku does love hearing about perverted news, LOL. So long as Kagome and Kikyou are also happy with the arrangement I say everybody wins!
| Angelalex242 chapter 1 . 2/17/2010
3some for the win! Miroku setting it up was icing on the cake.
| livve101 chapter 1 . 5/20/2009
write more write more and kagome should win
| shannello chapter 1 . 3/9/2007
You can't NOT love this. Thank you! For writing this damn funny one-shot. The bit with Miroku and Inuyasha at the end was perfect, and the Kag/Kik was beautiful and sassy, lol Thanks!
| Forlorn Maiden chapter 1 . 2/28/2007
LoL XD loved this! Bravo! Yay, Inuyasha got both of them, and Kikyou and Kagome got what they wanted. (Everyone wins!) Hehee.
| scrawling purple ink chapter 1 . 6/21/2006
A heartfelt LMAO. It seems rushed, but it's still hilarious, particularly the last bit of dialogue...LMAO.
| Every Dog Has Its Day chapter 1 . 12/23/2005
you are SICK, but lol, that was funny!
| blahosaurus chapter 1 . 12/11/2005
Too funny! Two heads better than one, right? If only Kikyo and Kagome would put their grudges to the side and work together! Great ending as well, I think you're making Miroku's dream come true...
| Kiyoukashi chapter 1 . 11/25/2005
This was a little hard to follow, and I really didn't uinderstand the whole point of it...
| H. S. Hines chapter 1 . 11/24/2005
That's great. InuYasha and Miroku teaming up to get InuYasha BOTH his women... Of course, I got a huge laugh out of the girls declaring their ardour for each other.
Cute little short short!
| Flame Ivy Moon chapter 1 . 11/6/2005
I love it!
| The Gothic Kagome chapter 1 . 10/23/2005
hey I didn't know what was going on!
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"This is… beyond creepy," Inuyasha pointed out, holding a hand up weakly.
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| stupidisstupiddoes chapter 1 . 10/1/2005
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| cinnamon neko chapter 1 . 9/10/2005
hehe! I like it.
| Lucinda the Maid chapter 1 . 8/28/2005
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News Briefs 13-03-2017Posted by Greg at 12:05, 13 Mar 2017
It's only paranoia if their not out to get you...
- Inside the CIA 'psychic squad' that helped get hostages out of Iran.
- Harvard professor says humanity may have already received a signal from aliens, but didn't realise what it was.
- NASA just found a lost lunar spacecraft after 8 years.
- Witnesses to Australia's largest mass UFO sighting will speak about their 1966 encounter at an upcoming event dedicated to the Westall UFO event.
- Fake news about a secret Nazi UFO base in Antarctica refuses to die.
- Crop circles are real and contain hidden messages, says scientist.
- Did a historian from Ecuador find the lost 'treasure' of the Incas - in a book?
- Evidence of Neanderthal use of painkillers found in ancient tooth plaque.
- Formed by megafloods, this place fooled scientists for decades...until a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day.
- Australia was colonised by a single group 50,000 years ago.
- 500-year-old tunnels once thought to be folkloric were discovered beneath the streets of Puebla and opened to the public in 2016.
- Scientists discover how to 'upload knowledge to your brain'.
- Gattaca in real life: new bill would let companies force workers to get genetic tests and share the results.
- Image(s) of the Day: Archaeologists uncover giant Ramses II statue in Egypt.
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Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and 'progress,' everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow to Authority.
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Crop circles come in two categories: the real ones that are essentially burned patches in the ground; and the very real art projects. I think both are indeed messages, only one is obviously a little less complex and down to earth, so to speak. Believe it or not, the less complex messages come from the artists' circles. This article does not do a good job of distinguishing the two. There was a very well written blog post on here of someone who cracked the code of one if you recall. I'm too lazy to go through 27 pages of search so if someone has the link please reply.
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