Video Babes at Vloggercon

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.

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Comments

[Kevin Burton]

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.

[Rox]

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.

[Lukas Blakk]

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.

[Christine Herron]

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. ;)

[SorenG]

Why are so many VC's men? One example (26 out of 26)

http://www.austinventures.com/team/

But this is Texas . . .