R-Ladies Panel: Improving gender diversity in a male-dominated community

By Jenny Bryan, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel, Lucy D'Agostino McGowan, Gabriela de Queiroz, Mine Dogucu, Katherine Scranton, Jennifer Thompson in Contributed Panel

October 21, 2017

Abstract

R-Ladies is a worldwide organization whose mission is to promote gender diversity in the R community. We are interested in presenting a panel of regional leaders in the R-Ladies movement. We will discuss topics such as diversity data in the R community, best practices for starting up a meetup in your own community, best practices for running and continued success of a meetup in your community, and funding opportunities. We will also diagnose different obstacles and discuss how we attack them, for example increasing women’s competence versus confidence versus recognition in the R community. Finally we will provide resources and details about how to get involved with local meetups.

Date

October 21, 2017

Time

10:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Event

Women in Statistics and Data Science 2017