[diversity] Diversity in RIPE Meeting leadership

Hi all,

I read this and wanted to pass it on:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613320/ais-white-guy-problem-isnt-going-away/

The research they cite recommends:

"The researchers offer several recommendations for improving workplace 
diversity in a more comprehensive way. These include measures aimed at 
closing the pay and opportunity gap, increasing diversity at the 
leadership levels across departments, and changing the incentive 
structures for company executives to hire and retain workers from 
underrepresented groups."

...which leads me to think this:

What is the TF doing to address the extreme lack of diversity in the 
RIPE community leadership, eg: RIPE PC, RIPE WG Chair Collective?

In the RIPE PC, we have two women and 11 men and almost no racial 
diversity.

In the RIPE WG collective, we have 28 WG Chairs - 4 women. Same as ^ for 
racial diversity.

Tackling diversity in the community leadership is key for us to acheive 
our goals of increasing D&I at RIPE Meetings.

Interesting to note...I've been spending some time doing some data 
gathering to see if there's any correlation between the # of female 
presenters in a WG when there's a female WG Chair. I'll report back when 
I'm finished (it's a lot of manual work).

Anyways - curious to get a dialogue started on this.

Thanks,

Amanda



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