Really, 2015? Women At Technology Meetings Don't Code?

*sigh* Because it's not like women code or anything...

This is like the time I saw conflicting lunch meetings of the ASME & the SWE (mechanical engineers & women engineers) on campus where I work - in fact, I think the job recruiters were coming to the ASME meeting, and at the same time, it was the first SWE event of the year (or its wrap-up). Yet no one bothered to reschedule one meeting or the other.

And now DreamForce, of all places. A tech conference where the CEO of the sponsoring company is doing a keynote about women's "career advancement."

Yet women in a highly-paid but highly-sexist-and-gender-gapped career (programming) have to miss what the male presenters are saying about advancing their careers to go to the 1 & only keynote in their career track?

*sigh* Did no one think this through?

I've seen other sessions rescheduled - I think a reschedule is seriously in order for this one, DreamForce. (But not so other "underrepresented dual identities" conflict so insultingly instead!)