[cyberbullying or so this is what you get for being a woman?]

BlogHer asked where the women bloggers were - and found them.

We know gender diversity at techy conferences "still sucks." Jason Kotte collected these statistics:

"Future of Web Apps - San Francisco September 13-14, 20060 women, 13 men. 0% women speakers.
Tokion Magazine's 4th Annual Creativity Now Conference October 14-15, 20066 women, 30 men. 17% women speakers.
PopTech 2006 October 18-21, 20068 women, 30 men. 21% women speakers.
Web Directions North February 7-10, 20075 women, 16 men. 24% women speakers.
LIFTFebruary 7-9, 200710 women, 33 men. 23% women speakers.
Future of Web Apps - London February 20-22, 20071 woman, 26 men. 4% women speakers.
TED 2007 March 7-10, 200712 women, 41 men. 23% women speakers.
SXSW Interactive 2007 March 9-13, 2007147 women, 378 men. 28% women speakers.164 women, 373 men. 31% women speakers. (updated 2/22/2007)
BlogHer Business '07 March 22-23, 200743 women, 0 men. 100% women speakers.
An Event Apart Boston 2007 March 26-27, 20071 woman, 8 men. 11% women speakers.
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference March 26-29, 20079 women, 44 men. 17% women speakers.
Web 2.0 Expo 2007 April 15-18, 200717 women, 91 men. 16% women speakers.
Future of Web Design April 18, 20072 women, 12 men. 14% women speakers.
GEL 2007 April 19-20, 20072 women, 11 men. 15% women speakers.
MIX07 April 30 - May 2, 2007 0 women (UPDATE: now 8 women, see comment below from Beth - thanks!), 4 men. 0% women speakers.
The New Yorker Conference 2007 May 6-7, 20073 women, 21 men. 13% women speakers. (updated 2/28/2007)
Dx3 Conference 2007 May 15-18, 20075 women, 48 men. 9% women speakers. (updated 3/2/2007)
An Event Apart Seattle 2007 June 21-22, 20070 women, 9 men. 0% women speakers.

Dori Smith responds to Kotte and adds this: "great list of women speakers for your conference:
here

An InfoWorld Special Report on "Why are women exiting IT professions?". That's a good question; sadly, the articles don't even attempt to answer it. But I suspect that there's a correlation between the lack of women at these conferences and the declining numbers of women in tech.

And finally, just because it's a great article and I felt like I was looking in a mirror when I read it: Why some women just can't fit in. Go read it. And yes, again, I think that it's related to the bigger picture here."

BlogHer just held the BlogHer Business Summit: "How to Succeed in a Social Media World"

NLab is holding a conference with the focus on women, business & blogging where all speakers will be women (although men are invited to attend).

But then a few bloggers have to go and ruin it.

Scobel weighs in: "It’s this culture of attacking women that has especially got to stop. I really don’t care if you attack me. I take those attacks in stride. But, whenever I post a video of a female technologist there invariably are snide remarks about body parts and other things that simply wouldn’t happen if the interviewee were a man.

It makes me realize just how ascerbic this industry and culture are toward women. This just makes me ill."

----- but is silence really the best answer?