aws-reinvent-2014-gender.md

gender statistics for aws re:invent 2014

totals

spreadsheet here, culled from the videos here

• 245 presentations
• 231 all male presentations (94.29%)
• 4 all female presentations (1.63%)
• 10 presentations with men and women (4.08%)

my takeway

men: consider declining invitations to speak or giving up your spot to speak at re:invent 2015 and recommending a woman instead?

amazon: consider having some female keynote speakers?

notes

keynotes:

• all men: 23 videos total (some of these are clips of the keynotes, keynote speakers and presenters consist of 12 men)

advertising tech:

• all men: 2 of 3 presentations
• men and women: 1 of 3 presentations, with 17 minutes out of 48 minutes of screen time

app deployment and management:

• all men: 16 of 16 presentations

apps for fire:

• all men: 4 of 4 presentations

architecture:

• all men: 19 of 20 presentations
• men and women: 1 of 20 presentations, 19 minutes of screen time out of 48 minutes

archive, backup, and dvr:

• all men: 8 of 8 presentations

big data & hpc:

• all men: 20 of 22 presentations
• all women: 1 of 22 presentations
• men and women: 1 of 22 presentations (a panel with 2 women and 2 men, led by a woman)

business apps:

• all men: 6 of 6 presentations

developer tools & sdks:

• all men: 9 of 9 presentations

education:

• all men: 3 of 3 presentations

enterprise adoption:

• all men: 24 of 29 presentations

• all women: 1 of 29 presentations

• men and women: 4 of 29 presentations

  • a presentation that included a woman with 15 of 40 minutes of screen time
  • panel with 1 woman and 2 men, led by a man
  • a presentation with 1 woman and 1 man that was about equal in terms of screen time
  • a presentation where a women had 22 minutes of 48 minutes of screen time

financial services

• all men: 4 of 4 presentations

gaming

• all men: 8 of 8 presentations

healthcare & life sciences

(note: one video was private so i couldn't check it but am assuming it's all dudes)

• all men: 4 of 6 presentations
• men and women: 2 of 6 presentations

media production & distribution

• all men: 4 of 5 presentations
• men and women: 1 of 5 presentations

mobile & connected devices

• all men: 10 of 10 presentations

performance

• all men: 9 of 9 presentations

security

• all men (including an all male panel of 5 men): 22 of 23 presentations
• men and women: 1 of 23 presentations

services deep dive

• all men: 21 of 22 presentations
• all women: 1 of 22 presentations

services overview

• all men: 6 of 6 presentations

spotlight

• all women: 1 of 15 presentations
• all men: 14 of 15 presentations

websites

• all men: 10 of 10 presentations