Re: Postgres Women talk at pgconfeu

Here's a great article on the topic of how to ask questions appropriately
regarding gender identity:

https://www.hrc.org/resources/collecting-transgender-inclusive-gender-data-in-workplace-and-other-surveys

The most critical point is never make that a required question -- it should
be optional, as not everyone wants to share this personal information.

Sincerely,
Debbie

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 9:14 AM Valeria Kaplan <vk(at)dataegret(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Lætitia and Ilaria / All,
>
> Sounds like a great idea.
> I think maybe it would be even more impactful to do an online survey to
> see how *actually* diverse we are in numbers?
>
> You might have planned this anyway, but here just an idea. You could do a
> few pools through the Postgres Women Twitter handle for example to ask the
> community questions:
> 1. which sex you relate to? (you'll need to think about how to phrase it
> correctly);
> 2. where where you born?;
> 3. where do you live?
> 4. would you consider yourself having a disability?
> ...and other diversity questions)
> and then visualise it in your presentation alongside statistics about IT
> community as a whole (or whatever stats on IT community you will be able to
> find.
> https://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-eye-opening-statistics-about-minorities-in-tech/ might
> be useful as a starting point.) I think this will help to see whether
> PostgreSQL community is reflective of a broader IT groups etc.
> Of course, it would only be a sample and not everyone is on Twitter etc.
> However, that will be a relatively painless way to get good number of
> responses and get an idea what we are dealing with. 8)
>
> Would be glad to hear what you think.
> I'll be in Milano btw.
>
> Valeria
>
>
>
> *Valeria Kaplan*Marketing Director
>
>
> *Data Egret*
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 2:17 PM Lætitia Avrot <laetitia(dot)avrot(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> During a brainstorming session about conf talk ideas with Ilaria, we had
>> this idea: how about having a lot of people (majority of women, but some
>> other genders too) on stage to show how diverse and numerous we are ?
>>
>> Who would come ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Lætitia
>>
>> Le ven. 17 mai 2019 à 07:51, Lætitia Avrot <laetitia(dot)avrot(at)gmail(dot)com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> What would you think about a talk in Milan about : what is postgres
>>> women, why it matters and what everyone can do about it?
>>>
>>> Anyone interested to do it (with or without me)?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Lætitia
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> *Paper doesn’t grow on trees. Please print responsibly.*
>>
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