This boggles my mind. It comes down to being unteachable.

If an event is ruined because of the limitations of their call for papers, perhaps it wasn’t a great event to begin with.

Among the issues with female speakers, in my experience as one, is that we have quite a lot of hidden costs to being away in the form of care taking (child sitting, parent care, pets).

I’m glad diversity training is in place, but I’d like to see women value the business expense of attending a conference to speak.

Basically, it costs me about $1000 to go to a WordCamp to speak for free.

It’s really too bad these kind of conferences don’t offer in-kind donations as a tax write off.