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CHI: Gender
Aug. 30th, 2006 10:22 pmSo after seeing Nick's CHI'06 Geographical Distribution I got interested in other statistical work with the CHI archive. (Rant: fer chrissake, ACM, could you make things be available in any other way than raw HTML? Even some bloody structured HTML would be a step up. I shouldn't be searching for strong tags in an attempt to find names. Get your act together and have some decent CSS classes. Rant over.)
One thing I've wondered about for a while is gender. Is HCI becoming a more evenly mixed conference? Is it an old boys club and going to stay that way? What about all the awards? This year, Judith Olson was the first woman to win the Lifetime Achievement Award, jointly with Gary Olson; the other eight members are all men. There are 32 male members of the CHI Academy, and 5 women. But for the Distinguished Service Award... six men, five women. Interesting, eh? What's going on there? Now, let's face it, computing in general has been male dominated for a long time, and a lot of men have done a lot of very good work, and I do not deny in any way that there are good researchers on these lists who have every right in the world to be there. (But I remember hearing the graduate students of one very respected European female researchers suggesting that they buy her an honorary penis so that she'd be eligible for the Academy rather than the Service award...) So what is the gender breakdown of CHI publications, anyway, as a baseline measure of CHI involvement?
Have a look at this:
( gratitous detail )
One thing I've wondered about for a while is gender. Is HCI becoming a more evenly mixed conference? Is it an old boys club and going to stay that way? What about all the awards? This year, Judith Olson was the first woman to win the Lifetime Achievement Award, jointly with Gary Olson; the other eight members are all men. There are 32 male members of the CHI Academy, and 5 women. But for the Distinguished Service Award... six men, five women. Interesting, eh? What's going on there? Now, let's face it, computing in general has been male dominated for a long time, and a lot of men have done a lot of very good work, and I do not deny in any way that there are good researchers on these lists who have every right in the world to be there. (But I remember hearing the graduate students of one very respected European female researchers suggesting that they buy her an honorary penis so that she'd be eligible for the Academy rather than the Service award...) So what is the gender breakdown of CHI publications, anyway, as a baseline measure of CHI involvement?
Have a look at this:
( gratitous detail )
