And you are here why?

Moritz Stefaner started tracking male vs. female speakers at conferences that he went to, and that evolved into this handy-dandy chart on gender balance in conferences on data visualization (handy!), creative code, and information graphics . The bottom line - its better than I expected, but seriously, that is not saying much (the Erlang / Functional Programming / NoSQL world is heavily skewed towards male speakers...). Here hoping for a far more equitable future... (click to embiggen. Better yet, go to the original for the fully interactive version)

The point behind the title isn't So what? , but more of a Why do I say that? And the answer is - because thats what the data are showing. Jordan Weissmann at The Atlantic summarizes a couple of annual report s releases by the National Center for Education Statistics to come up with the following chart The key points from the above? Starting 1995, more women have graduated w/ Bachelor's degrees than men.  Or, to cast this slightly differently, this has been going on for the last 17 years (and counting) The trend lines have been dominated by women since 1975, i.e., At best , the increase in the percentage of men getting degrees is the same as for women (and its usually worse!) The bottom line here is that at some point in the future, a significant majority of the - educated - workforce will be women.  I suspect this may finally take care of the gender pay gap (23%!).