YAMMA - Yet Another Mostly Male Award - AAAS Public Engagement Award

So - I saw an post on Twitter about the AAAS Public Enagement with Science Award

The AAAS awards for public engagement with science are open for nominations! http://t.co/NHeB6a3NJM #scicomm

— Jon Tennant (@Protohedgehog) July 28, 2015

And I went to check it out since, well, I wondered - how could I win that.  And so I thought - I should look at how I compare to previous winners.  And in one way I compare really well. I am male.

Below is a list of past winners (via AAAS). In yellow I highlight those that appear to be male and green those that appear to be female. I note I base my assignment on appearance and names and descriptions of the people including the descriptions from AAAS. I realize that determining someone's gender is not always straightforward and that there are people who do not fit into this binary gender division and I apologize for any mistakes made.

• 2014 James Kakalios 
• 2013 Steven Strogatz
• 2012 Richard B. Alley
• 2011 Nalini Nadkarni
• 2010 J. John Cohen
• 2009 May R. Berenbaum
• 2008 Kenneth R. Miller
• 2007 Neil deGrasse Tyson
• 2006 S. James Gates, Jr.
• 2005 Jane Lubchenco
• 2004 Eric S. Lander
• 2003 John Allen Paulos
• 2002 Bassam Shakhashiri
• 2001 Ian N. Stewart
• 2000 Vaclav Smil
• 1999 Lawrence Krauss
• 1998 Christopher Wills
• 1997 Barry T. Peterson
• 1996 Alan J. Friedman
• 1995 Carl Sagan
• 1994 Edward O. Wilson
• 1993 Science Theatre
• 1992 Farouk El-Baz
• 1991 Stephen H. Schneider
• 1990 William L. Rathje
• 1989 Robert D. Ballard
• 1988 Anthony M. Fauci
• 1987 Philip Morrison

The totals are 24 men and 3 women (and one group).  Or, for those assigned to a gender, 89 % men and 11 % women.  Could this all be about merit?  I don't think so.  I think there are many examples of areas in which AAAS has problems with gender bias.  For example, consider the recent letter (of which I am a cosigner) regarding AAAS' reinforcement of "damaging stereotypes".