Now that Eric has (duly) highlighted a conference on extended cognition with a very bad gender balance (11 men, 0 women), for the sake of fairness I’d like to draw everyone’s attention to another conference in the same area/topic which does have a much better gender balance, the ‘Distributed cognition and distributed agency’ workshop, taking place at Macquarie University pretty much as we speak.
Just as I sometimes highlight conferences with a good gender balance in areas having the reputation of being male-dominated (formal areas in particular), it seems fair to point out that there are quite a few women working on extended cognition, who are also at least to some extent receiving the recognition they deserve by the field at large, as exemplified by this Macquarie conference. While there is of course much room for improvement, it is perhaps worth noticing that extended cognition does not seem to be a field particularly hostile to female researchers -- but I'd be happy to see some debate on this claim in comments!
(One of the reasons why I think it is important to put things in perspective is because I fear that, once an area has the reputation of being hostile to women, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.)
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