Environment: Vloggercon in San Francisco.
Caveats: I counted based on the paid registration
list, but since about thirty attendees paid for multiple tickets, I assumed that boys brought boys, and girls brought girls.
Count:
Women: 58
Men: 159
Women at Vloggercon: 26.73%
Kevin Burton
estimated the number at 20%, which outweighed tech conferences (~12%)
by enough to send me running to the listkeeper at the door. This was
light compared to nonprofit tech babe-age (~35%), but I'd really like
to hear how the number compares to gender norms in mainstream media.
Tags: christine herron christine.net space jockeys women vloggercon
21/m single
Posted by: Mike | April 23, 2008 at 08:53 PM
Why are so many VC's men? One example (26 out of 26)
http://www.austinventures.com/team/
But this is Texas . . .
Posted by: SorenG | June 19, 2006 at 01:20 PM
With over 200 attendees, any mis-gendering is unlikely to make a significant dent in stats. I do run across some names that I can't be sure of, and in those cases I alternate. First instance I'll call a boy, second instance I'll call a girl, etc. In theory, doing a 50:50 random assignment on 1 - 5% of the names on an attendee list won't make a huge impact on the final breakdown.
As for the arbitrary girl:girl and boy:boy...well, any method for guessing what gender friend someone had brought would be arbitrary. Hence my listing it as a caveat. ;)
Posted by: Christine | June 11, 2006 at 04:30 PM
While I appreciate a headcount - this number is random and can't really give an accurate portrayal of the number of women. Also, as a woman who is often mistaken for a man, you probably missed me.
I'm not sure why you assume that women bring women and men bring men...almost refreshing in it's homocentricity, but confusing.
Posted by: Lukas Blakk | June 11, 2006 at 03:03 PM
Purely anecdotal but there are far more females at Vloggercon than at other tech/geek events I have attended. Surely this is partly due to the fact that women get a lot of positive traction in front of the camera. And it also helps that no longer do you have to be a hard-core coder to play in this space.
Posted by: Rox | June 11, 2006 at 02:01 PM
Wow... 26.75..... not bad... I wasn't off by too much. :)
Thanks for computing the numbers!
Hopefully this is a trend that will continue but I'm wondering if it has to do with the video-centric nature of this conference.
Posted by: Kevin Burton | June 10, 2006 at 05:36 PM