Women and Drupalcon: 7%

Submitted by robin on September 20, 2007 - 5:54am.

It was noted on the first day of Drupalcon that 93% of attendees are men. After talking with a couple of
other women working with CivicActions, I decided it was worth setting up a Birds of a Feather session: The Other 7% - Women and Drupal.

At lunch time today, about 12 of us met up and it was great to meet some women in the community whose names I see regularly online like karens,webchick, add1sun, Allie Micka. We took some time to introduce ourselves and discussed how to encourage more women to join the Drupal community.

There is a bit of a struggle because we want to encourage women without singling them out like "Oh look! It's a woman". Quick conclusions include leading by example. Every step each one of us takes to become more visible in the community will encourage others to join the Drupal community because "Oh look, there are women involved!" Diversity in the community will make it stronger and I hope to start making myself a bit more visible in the coming months.