{"id":22342,"date":"2018-08-30T18:11:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T01:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=22342"},"modified":"2018-08-30T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T01:11:13","slug":"if-you-cannot-include-more-than-one-woman-on-your-panel-then-you-are-not-worthy-of-my-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/?p=22342","title":{"rendered":"If you cannot include more than one woman on your panel, then you are not worthy of my time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DkBty7jW4AAXkFH.jpg\" width=\"1199\" height=\"885\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I will be speaking at an event in South Africa next week. I was actually going to turn it down, but am glad I did not because if I had, it would have been another bloody manel. As it is, I am the only woman speaking on this one. Far from being a solution it is actually a problem.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After much reflection, I have decided that this will be the last such panel I do. I have decided that I will no longer appear on any panel anywhere in the world where I am the only woman speaking with a bunch of men.<\/p>\n<p>If I am the only woman invited to speak on a panel, I will not speak. I will turn it down. I have no interest in being a statistic in a gender ticking exercises, in being there for skewed \u201cgender balance\u201d. And I have no interest in working with people of such little imagination that they willfully exclude half the population.<\/p>\n<p>If you cannot include more than one woman on your panel, then you are not worthy of my time.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Photo Credit: Twitter \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/methanoJen\/status\/1026942681421938689\">Jennifer Glass<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be speaking at an event in South Africa next week. I was actually going to turn it down, but am glad I did not because if I had, it would have been another bloody manel. As it is, I am the only woman speaking on this one. Far from being a solution it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5113,6241,5085],"class_list":["post-22342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-equality","tag-petina-gappah","tag-women","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22343,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22342\/revisions\/22343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womeninandbeyond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}