Survey is Now Closed. The survey was conducted from May 4, 2007 to October 22, 2007.
In February 2007, Jason Kottke published information showing the low percentage of female speakers at conferences about design, technology, and the web. Among the conferences under fire was An Event Apart. Jeffrey Zeldman, who founded the conference along with Eric Meyer, has since been adamant about getting the facts.
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My purpose here is find out what women who ARE working in web design and development, have to say about the disparities and what they think can be done to improve things.
This is a new thing for me, so please let me know if there is anything I can do to improve this process or if there is anything I grossly left out. Thank you for participating.
Actually, both Jeffrey and I are adamant about getting solid information about this and many other aspects of our profession, but I’ve been publicly silent about it, given the likely pushback that I would experience. (And I’m not blaming anyone but myself for that.)
I’d love to know what you find out, and I’ll be linkblogging the survey in the hopes of spreading the word. I hope you’ll also take the ALA Web Design Survey, if you haven’t already!
Cheers Eric. I certainly didn’t mean to infer you weren’t adamant about this as well. Appreciate the linkage and looking forward to the responses.
I have taken the ALA survey thanks for bringing it up. I encourage everyone to participate in this survey as well. You can take this survey at
http://alistapart.com/articles/webdesignsurvey
I think it’s great that you’re seeking annectotal answers from responding parties – there’s definitely a fog in the way of our understanding the female web designer/developer experience in the workplace. I think that the answers and stories you collect will do a lot to shed a light on the facts and figures that are out there.
Can’t wait to see the results!
[...] For this reason, I decided to conduct my own small industry survey, Women Who Design the Web, to highlight a cross section of personal experiences, by women working in web design and development. [...]