{"id":146,"date":"2008-02-08T12:21:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T16:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/humanism\/2008\/02\/08\/women-in-humanismatheismskepticism\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T13:06:24","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:06:24","slug":"women-in-humanismatheismskepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/2008\/02\/08\/women-in-humanismatheismskepticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Humanism\/Atheism\/Skepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Watson of <a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skepchick<\/a> has been doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicradioquest.com\/\">great work<\/a> since her turn as one of the most intriguing speakers at our April conference. This unfortunately <a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/blog\/?p=949\">well-justified rant<\/a> about the lack of female speakers at TAM6 (James Randi&#8217;s &#8220;The Amazing Meeting&#8221; conferences are among the biggest drawing events in the Humanist\/atheist world) really caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to be the pot assisting another cooking vessel in calling the kettle black: male speakers outnumbered female speakers at <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewhumanism.org\" target=\"_blank\">The New Humanism<\/a> as well, albeit not by the ratio Rebecca is rightly bemoaning. But I really agree this is one of the next big issues our community needs to address. Surely, prominently featuring the work of more female Humanist\/skeptic leaders is one important way for us to live up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iheu.org\/node\/1481\">Humanist ideals. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>What else do we need to do? How can the Humanist\/nontheist community most effectively cultivate female leadership and participation? Do we have to look at different types of programs? Different types of language?<br \/>\nMy friend Susan Marine, director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/hcwc.fas.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard College Women&#8217;s Center<\/a>, has always said she&#8217;d be happy to help if we ever decided to put on a major (or, to start out, a not-so-major) Harvard event on Women in Humanism\/Atheism\/Skepticism, perhaps for next year.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Watson of Skepchick has been doing great work since her turn as one of the most intriguing speakers at our April conference. This unfortunately well-justified rant about the lack of female speakers at TAM6 (James Randi&#8217;s &#8220;The Amazing Meeting&#8221; conferences are among the biggest drawing events in the Humanist\/atheist world) really caught my eye. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}