📣🚨 ACT NOW | MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Doesn't Favor Odds for Women with 38% Manels

MIT, you are incorrigible. It’s honestly hard to believe that the gender balance of your MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (March 6–7, 2020) speaker list can remain this bad for this long.

Check out these numbers:

Unfortunately, it’s not just the overall speaker balance that’s bad. Let’s take a look at all the manels, shall we? In 2019, 17% of all panels with three or more speakers did not include any women. In 2020, that number jumped to 38% — a 21% jump in the WRONG direction! And don’t think we haven’t noticed that 11 of the women speaking this year also spoke in both 2018 and 2019, meaning there is a high level of carryover and a low level of seeking out and adding more women speakers.

Oh, and one more thing! You’re not fooling us with this Women’s Lunch, where you’ll be discussing “extending and increasing the connection among women in sports and analytics.” You know how you can increase that connection? Add women to your own speaker list so those coming up in the analytics industry can see and be inspired by women just like them.

📣🚨 2 DAYS TO #SSAC20! Instead of counting down to conference day, @SloanSportsConf, you should count your women speakers like @GenderAvenger did. At only 22% ‪with a 21% rise in manels‬, clearly the odds are not in their favor. #GenderAvenger https://www.genderavenger.com/blog/mit-sloan-sports-analytics-conference-2020