A Platform for Women

Summary

Women Who Keynote is a platform dedicated to promoting women, including transgender and cis women, as well as gender non-binary and transgender men who consent to being included, for speaking opportunities across all industries to address gender diversity in professional events.

Abstract

Women Who Keynote is an initiative aimed at elevating the visibility of women and underrepresented genders in professional speaking roles. The platform serves as a showcase for speakers of diverse experience levels and industries, emphasizing that anyone with a message can be a keynote speaker. It seeks to combat the prevalence of all-male panels and the systemic gender diversity issues in various sectors by ensuring that event organizers have access to a broad range of speakers. The platform's mission is to foster inclusivity and diversity by providing a space for women and gender non-binary individuals to be recognized and heard in professional settings. It is committed to representing all underrepresented genders, with a careful approach to consent and identity, particularly for non-binary individuals and trans men.

Opinions

The platform believes that denying women speaking opportunities at professional conferences contributes to the lack of visibility and perpetuates gender diversity problems.
Women Who Keynote is actively working against the occurrence of all-male panels and advocates for greater diversity in speaker lineups at events.
The initiative is inclusive of transgender women, cis women, and gender non-binary individuals, ensuring that the term 'women' is used in a broad and encompassing manner.
The platform respects the consent and identity of gender non-binary individuals and trans men, only promoting them if they have chosen to be part of the platform.
The mission of the platform is to enact change in the industry by holding event organizers accountable for diverse representation among speakers.

A Platform for Women

We are proud to present Women Who Keynote.

Women Who Keynote is a platform designed for women* to promote themselves for speaking opportunities.

Our platform is designed to showcase speakers of all experience levels and across all industries. If you have something to say, you are a potential keynote speaker.

Our Mission

Denying women opportunities to present at professional conferences and events prevents them from gaining visibility and deprives their colleagues of their valuable perspectives. Failure to listen to the voices of female experts contributes to the continued gender diversity problems experienced in many industries.

The mission of Women Who Keynote is to contribute to the elimination of all-male panels and help improve the visibility of women in male-dominated industries. Our platform is intended to hold event organisers to account and encourage greater diversity in their speaker lineups.

For us, this mission encompasses all underrepresented genders.

* Note

Women Who Keynote is designed for all underrepresented genders. Our use of the term ‘women’ encompasses all women, including transgender women and cis women. ‘Gender non-binary’ encompasses people who are genderqueer and gender non-conforming.

Being non-consensually positioned in the category of ‘women’ could be regarded as the implicit misgendering of a non-binary person or a trans man or those belonging to other minority genders. Women Who Keynote promotes speakers who are gender non-binary or trans men only in the case where the speaker has consented to this by joining our platform.

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