Where Are All The Women In Digital Media?

The Grindstone:

"I walked into the cocktail reception and I swore I was at a bachelor party."

Elaine Kunda, CEO of The Grindstone's parent company, B5 Media, said this in her description of the cocktail party for the recent Annual Digital Summit Conference hosted by Digiday, the media company and community for professionals who work in the digital media, marketing and advertising industry. Elaine said the conference, which was held in Bonita Springs, Fla., was overloaded with males. At the cocktail reception she said there seemed to be only 15 women mixed in with the 100-plus male attendees. Out of 38 speakers, Elaine was also the only female to have her photo appear in the speaker list for the three-day conference. This unbalanced attendee ratio led us to wonder, where are all the women in digital media?

Women were absolutely not excluded from the event, according to the Digiday team. Many were invited, they just didn't show up.

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Comments

[grapost]

10:00 AM on 11/07/2011

Because they would rather go shopping, get their hair and nails done, and watch QVC and the Lifetime channel.

Of course the Feminists will blame it all on the Patriarchy, oppression. sexism, discrimination.

Nothing is ever a woman's fault, it is always because they are the victim of something!

[The Corporate Champion]

07:46 PM on 11/04/2011

Simple: they're not interested.