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About a dozen of us from the various democracy/advocacy panels at SXSW headed out for dinner at Ironworks for ribs and brisket. Umm, yummy, greasy meat-a-thon.

Now I need some time to process and wrap up my experiment of looking at the conference through the lens of women's presence and participation.The percentages were not surprising at all. It would be good to find out the registration estimates from SXSW (I recognize they don't ask for gender when you register, but I wonder if they keep track.) What was useful was to keep one frame, one lens in mind as I participated and experienced the event. What if I had taken the lens of a man, or a black person? Could I take a lens that was of an identity not my own? I don't think so. What if I had planned this in tandem with others who took on different lenses? What would our experiences look like stacked up side to side?

I have not looked at the speaker breakdown for gender or any other defining character. Worth looking at.

For me, there seems no reason from a content perspective why SXSW would not attract fairly equal proportions of men and women. So the question is, why is it still 2/3rds to 3/4rs men?

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