I wonder if you'd have better gender balance at a science panel at an Asian convention. I'm inclined to think so because I haven't observed the same focused funnelling of women into the arts and men into the sciences in the Asian cultures I'm familiar with as there is in the UK/US. But, y'know, anecdata.
Anecdotally, the first (so far only) con I went to, zixi and I went to a discussion about science and science fiction (a woman who I think was some kind of social scientist type collecting data for her thesis), and while the room was fairly gender-balanced, it was also a) very white (also true of the con overall, I think), and b) I think we were the only women in the room with science backgrounds and science jobs.
So yeah, I wonder. Although I think the connection between science and SF probably affects it also, and I'm not even sure I understand that in the US, so I wouldn't begin to speculate about other countries.
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Date: 2012-05-31 10:33 pm (UTC)Anecdotally, the first (so far only) con I went to,
So yeah, I wonder. Although I think the connection between science and SF probably affects it also, and I'm not even sure I understand that in the US, so I wouldn't begin to speculate about other countries.