[NCUC-DISCUSS] NomCom February Report Card

[William Drake]

Me too!!!!!!!!!!!

> On Feb 18, 2017, at 10:35, avri doria <avri at apc.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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>>  Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>>  University of Zurich, Switzerland
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