Back in October when Ismael hosted his Office 2.0 conference there was a dustup about the speaker roster featuring almost exclusively men. It was a good learning experience for everyone involved in this conference and a strong effort was made to correct the imbalance.

I see Office 2.0, located in the Silicon Valley the very bastion of women who celebrate the concept of ‘working from within’, and there’s only one woman on the list. One.

Today I get an email from Pierce Mattie Public Relations asking me to vote on their “publicist of the year award” and in looking at the roster I can’t help but notice an imbalance, there is only one “token male” on the list. One. This is a blatant case of gender bias if I’ve ever seen one, I am only left to wonder if Shelley Powers is going to rise up with indignation on this one too.