Female speakers are outnumbered by men by three to one at Europe’s top international meetings including the Davos summit and Munich Security Conference, a report revealed on Thursday. “But until now, no one has brought this ratio into question for Europe’s top conferences,” Mourehouse added. The worst is the annual Globsec security forum in the Slovak capital Bratislava, with only 12 percent of female speakers, the study found. Open Society Foundations, a group founded by US billionaire George Soros, looked at 23 conferences between 2012 and mid-2017, finding that 26 percent of 12,600 speakers were women and 74 percent male. The European Union (EU) backed the Open Society Foundation’s call for an end to “manels”.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 08, 2018 00:17 UTC