[NCUC-DISCUSS] NomCom February Report Card

[avri doria]

Hi

I wish you luck at getting it turned around.  I hope you find some women
who are acceptable to this year's nomcom for the Board.

avri



On 17-Feb-17 09:06, William Drake wrote:
> Hi
>
>> On Feb 16, 2017, at 19:21, avri doria <avri at apc.org
>> <mailto:avri at apc.org>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think most people know it is not worth the effort to go before an all
>> male committee and hope they will choose a woman.
>
> I would hope they don’t ‘know’ this because it’s not true.  The 2016
> NC had one female member and appointed 2 woman and 5 men, which was
> well short of balance but not hopeless. I argued the point all year to
> the point of annoying colleagues, and believe that in light of the
> outcomes and pending Board turnover the 2017 NC—which also has only
> one female member---feels particular pressure to appoint a woman to
> the Board this time around; we shall see.  Looking further back, the
> 2015 NC had 5 female members and appointed 4 woman and 6 men, better.
>  But in contrast, the 2014 NC also had 5 female members and appointed
> just one woman and five men. So it’s not obvious there’s a direct
> causal connection between NC composition and appointee composition;
> there are a lot of other considerations in play in each case, e.g. the
> number of female candidates in the applicant pools per position, skill
> sets and needs identified by the respective sub communities, the
> specific people up for (re)appointment, etc.  On could carry the
> exercise back to the beginning and add in applicant pools to get a
> global assessment of the pattern over time, and I would hope that the
> current NomCom Review Committee would do this.  Either way, I most
> certainly would not be telling female candidates not to apply based on
> the above facts.  We need to encourage applicants, not deter them, please.
>
> As to NC composition, I have suggested to colleagues that the
> appointing SOACs should really try to follow a rotation principle,
> rather than continually appointing men to the NC.  Some parts of the
> community systematically have more trouble doing this than others;
> NCUC and ALAC appear to have been the best, and I hope that my
> replacement as of Abu Dhabi will be consistent with this principle. I
> also hope that the current external NomCom Review will make a
> recommendation to this end; perhaps our representatives on it can
> update as to whether consideration is being given to the matter.
>
> Best
>
> Bill
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