To be clear, we absolutely welcome feedback and involvement from women, sorry if I didn't make that clear.
It's just that from my own discussions with women on this very topic, it's become clear that a common response to raising any kind of representation issue is to put the onus back on the victimized community to fix it ("oh our conference is not diverse enough? well why don't you send us a list of women who want to participate and we'll consider it!").
I wanted to communicate the fact that I'm aware of this, and for that reason am not expecting others to fix the issues with our own product. Sorry if that didn't come across properly.
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To be clear, we absolutely welcome feedback and involvement from women, sorry if I didn't make that clear.
It's just that from my own discussions with women on this very topic, it's become clear that a common response to raising any kind of representation issue is to put the onus back on the victimized community to fix it ("oh our conference is not diverse enough? well why don't you send us a list of women who want to participate and we'll consider it!").
I wanted to communicate the fact that I'm aware of this, and for that reason am not expecting others to fix the issues with our own product. Sorry if that didn't come across properly.