“Gender Diversity of Graphics Conference Leadership” by Jacobson
Conference:
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Title:
- Gender Diversity of Graphics Conference Leadership
Session/Category Title: Past Histories and Possible Futures
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Abstract:
Non-male identifying researchers, including women and non-binary individuals, are underrepresented in leadership roles within computer graphics conferences. Analyzing data on these roles over time across key conferences highlights this disparity, while also identifying positive trends and worrisome constants. The goal of the following data collection is to provide grounded statistics to inform future decision making. Recognizing even small successes from the past may inspire and accelerate future improvement. The academic community’s recent failure to sufficiently address sexual harassment and malevolent behavior from members of our community (e.g. [Obr 2023]) is an urgent reminder to improve.
This is admittedly arm-chair statistics. Anyone with the internet could collect this data and create the following statistics and plots. Nevertheless, I would like to be thorough about the methodology, largely replicating Graesser et al. [2021], who examined robotics.
References:
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Anna Brown. 2022. About 5% of Young Adults in the U.S. Say Their Gender is Different from Their Sex Assigned at Birth. Pew Research Center.
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Ana Dodik, Silvia Sellán, Theodore Kim, and Amanda Phillips. 2022. Sex and Gender in the Computer Graphics Research Literature. In SIGGRAPH Talks.
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Carol Frieze and Jeria L. Quesenberry. 2019. How computer science at CMU is attracting and retaining women. Commun. ACM (2019).
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Laura Graesser, Aleksandra Faust, Hadas Kress-Gazit, Lydia Tapia, and Risa Ulinski. 2021. Gender Diversity of Conference Leadership. IEEE Robotics & Autom. (2021).
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Melissa Korn. 2018. Allegations of Groping, Lewd Comments and Rape: Academia’s #MeToo Moment. The Wall Street Journal (2018).
