Today's wondering - why are so few of the speakers at "UC Drought Summit" women?

Got pointed to YAMWASGR (yet another meeting with a skewed gender ratio) this AM via Twitter.

@phylogenomics I've read your blogs about lack of diversity on conference panels, thoughts on UC drought summit's? https://t.co/PsH1dOikc9

— Elizabeth Case (@elizabeth_case) April 25, 2014

This was in reference to a meeting in Sacramento:  Apr. 25: UC Drought Summit, free and open to public | Center for Watershed Sciences and alas the gender ratio is definitely skewed on the speaker list.  Men in Blue, Women in Yellow.

• UC activities to reduce water use on and off campus
• • Barbara Allen-Diaz, UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources 
• • Matthew St.Clair, University Office of the President
• Current drought: causes, how bad is it, and will we see more like it?
• • Amir AghaKouchak, UC Irvine
• • Michael Anderson, State Climatologist
• • Daniel Cayan, UC San Diego
• • William Collins, UC Berkeley; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• • Glen MacDonald, UCLA
• • Daniel Swain, Stanford University
• Drought-proofing California?
• • Michael Stenstrom, UCLA 
• • Jay Lund, UC Davis
• Kenneth Baerenklau, UC Riverside
• • Roger Bales, UC Merced
• • Charles Burt, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
• • Frank Loge, UC Davis
• • Stephanie Pincetl,UCLA
• • Scott Stephens, UC Berkeley
• Remarks by Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi, UC Davis
• Economic consequences of the drought: agriculture, energy, forests, industry and water
• • Katrina Jessoe, UC Davis
• • Anthony Madrigal, Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians 
• • Josué Medellín-Azuara, UC Davis
• • Daniel Sumner, UC Agricultural Issues Center
• • David Sunding, UC Berkeley
• Endangered species and drought: science, management and policies
• • Richard Frank, UC Davis
• • Ellen Hanak, Public Policy Institute of California
• • David Hayes, Stanford University; former deputy Interior secretary
•  • Peter Moyle, UC Davis
• • David Sedlak, UC Berkeley
• • Joshua Viers, UC Merced
• State policy for future droughts: groundwater, storage, marketing and conservation
• • Jay Famiglietti, UC Irvine
• • Thomas Harter, UC Davis
• • Ruth Langridge, UC Santa Cruz
• • Steve Macaulay, consultant
• • Samuel Sandoval Solis, UC Davis 
• • Kurt Schwabe, UC Riverside     

That comes out to 26:6 in my count or 18.8% female, 81.2% male.  Now, I note - I have no idea what the "pool" looks like in this area, but such a % certainly does not look good from an outside (to the field, even though I am an insider in that this was organized by some people at UC Davis).   Once again, I would like to point out to meeting organizers, that having a diverse pool of speakers for a meeting is important for many reasons and sometimes it takes extra work to pull it off, but in my experience it is definitely worth it.