Actually, I'd thought that selecting London as a Worldcon site was an indication of progress. UK conrunners I know (present company very much included) are attentive to such issues and determined to improve things.
Mathematically perfect gender-parity does not interest me so much as becoming wide awake to the possibility of new voices and putting effort into recruiting good program participants we might previously have overlooked.
One might hope that Loncon will set an example from which subsequent Worldcons will learn, but a bit of missionary work won't hurt either.
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Date: 2013-09-05 04:38 pm (UTC)Actually, I'd thought that selecting London as a Worldcon site was an indication of progress. UK conrunners I know (present company very much included) are attentive to such issues and determined to improve things.
Mathematically perfect gender-parity does not interest me so much as becoming wide awake to the possibility of new voices and putting effort into recruiting good program participants we might previously have overlooked.
One might hope that Loncon will set an example from which subsequent Worldcons will learn, but a bit of missionary work won't hurt either.