Following on the Gendered Conference Campaign, some of us at Newapps have been focusing attention on all-male conference line-ups and all-male collected volumes. It is worth noting that the same principles apply to departmental colloquium line-ups. I recently received an announcement of a departmental series for Fall. It was an excellent series. It was put together by good folks who surely had no sexist intent. (It is becoming tedious to point out over and over that ill-intent isn't the point; but given the comments we get, probably worth belaboring.) But it had more than 10 speakers, all of them men.
Let's all try to do better.
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