Elisa’s writing about the low number of women at many events in the emerging technology community and reports that she’s been asked “Has it been hard to find women speakers?”
Answer: No, there are women everywhere…In fact our only trouble was that there were way more fascinating, skilled, accomplished, intelligent, richly expressive women out there than we could fit into our agenda.”
Okay, I have an agenda in posting this, which is I am on the BlogHer planning committee, but I also like Elisa’s point–women are everywhere–but are you paying attention? As we all know, it’s not just who’s out there, it’s what you notice.
Lecture over.