“There is a gender diversity problem in the digital industry. There are still many more men employed in it than there are women, a problem that’s made (and looks) even worse at the conferences and events we host and attend. Too often, the speakers on stage at those events are mostly, sometimes even entirely, male. That has to change.”
https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2016/03/08/gds-and-gender-diversity-at-conferences-and-events/