In the welcome session of #sobtec2026 we said that we have an ambivalent feeling: females participated in 6/11 talks (actually 7/12, one female speaker could not attend) which are good news in comparison to previous editions. Yet only 6 from 18 speaker were females, which is clearly bad news. We asked all the attendees to let us know what we could do differently. It's better than other years, but still a lot of work to do (3/5) 
@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂ 
@femprocomunsCooperativa femProcomuns 
@rex0n
We have also been asking some women* about the main obstacles. An astonishing number of them commented that children care (during #Sobtec2026 schools are closed) and not having "enough time" played a role in not coming to SobTec. We have been organizing some children activities: in past editions it was quite informal ("email us if you need children support"), but this year we included in the programme. We learned that we need to communicate better (4/5)
@WtebbensWouter Tebbens ⁂ @femprocomunsCooperativa femProcomuns @rex0n
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