Last year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, best known for the annual Davos gatherings, added 47 years to the time necessary to reach workplace equality. According to the WEF, in 2017, gender parity ‘shifted into reverse” and it will take 217 YEARS for disparities in the pay and employment opportunities of men and women to end. It is the first time since 2006 that “slow but steady progress” toward parity has halted. Join this interactive session to learn more about - The factors that will help us close the gender pay gap - The new opportunities available to women today -- Bobbie takes you through the five "C"s, five categories of reasons why you need to speak to get the visibility you need and deserve. About the Speaker: Bobbie Carlton is the founder of Innovation Women, a new model speaker’s bureau for entrepreneurial, technical and innovative women. The company helps connect women with event managers looking for speakers, panelists, moderators and presenters, especially for industry conferences and events. In 2018, Bobbie was named one of the “50 on Fire” which recognizes the city’s top inventors, disrupters, luminaries, and newsmakers.

1. Why Wait?
Driving Gender-balance and
New Opportunities for Women Now
InnovationWomen.com

2. Agenda
• Welcome
• The Situation – The Gender Gap
• Why we need to change The Situation
• The symptoms and the opportunity
• The Speaker’s Paradise
• How / Why
• What can we do?
• Q&A

4. 144 Countries
Benchmarked
• Economic Participation and Opportunity
• Educational Attainment
• Health and Survival
• Political Empowerment

5. USA Rank
#49

8. Side by side comparison made easy

9. Female investment
bankers at Barclays
get bonuses that
are 79% lower
than men on
average

10. “Women made just under 89
cents on a man’s dollar in 2016,
down from the high of 92 cents
in 2011.”

11. “In 2001, 5 of the 9 Massachusetts
State university presidents were
women - today zero.”

12. “The number of female
investment managers in the $15
trillion U.S. mutual fund industry
fell every year for the last 6
years. In 2009, women were 10%
of all investment managers and
by 2015, 7%.”

13. “In 1999, 10% of the partners in
venture capital firms were
women. In 2005, this number
dropped to 6%.
Currently, about 7% of partners
at top VC firms are women.”

14. “Women lost ground when it
comes to the share of venture
dollars. In 2016, women got just
2.19% of venture capital
funding.”

15. “The average VC deal among
women-led companies last year
was worth $4.5 million—
compared to $6.1 million in 2015
and $5.1 million in 2014…”

17. Why
Diversify?
Why Gender-
balance?
Diverse teams
perform better.
Diverse
companies
perform better.
We ALL benefit from
diversity-driven
innovation.

18. What
happens if we
don’t
diversify?
What if we
don’t gender-
balance?
PR/Social
media scorn
Hiring gets
harder
Automation is
coming

20. • +$250 billion to the UK’s GDP
• +$1,750 billion to the USA’s GDP
• +$550 billion to Japan’s GDP
• +$320 billion to France’s GDP
• +$310 billion to Germany’s GDP
• +$2.5 trillion to China’s GDP
What Happens When We Close the Gap?

21. Women Need to Say
“Yes” to Speaking
Invitations…

25. “As upsetting as it is, there is a limited pool when it comes to women
in these positions," Chupka wrote in a recent blog post. "We feel
your pain. It bothers us, too. The tech industry and every industry
must do better.“
~ Karen, Chupka, Senior Vice President, CES and Corporate Business
Strategy Consumer Technology Association (CTA)

28. “The organizers of JPM are not responsible for the dearth of women
among the company presenters. That’s because companies invited
to present at the conference can choose to send any of their
executives to give the 30-minute talk. They usually, but not always,
dispatch their CEO to take the stage alone.
“JPM conference organizers do choose the slate of high-profile
speakers who give opening remarks, talk on panels, participate in
fireside chats, and deliver keynote speeches.”
-- Rebecca Robbins and Meghana Keshavan, Stat News, JANUARY 7,
2018

30. "We acknowledge that there is a lack of women in cybersecurity
and it's part of a larger lack of diversity in the larger tech space.“
~ RSA Conference vice president and curator Sandra Toms

31. #WhyWait
for Gender
Balance

32. All Male Panel Excuses Bingo

33. Women Need to Say
“Yes” to Speaking
Invitations…

34. The Speaker’s
ParadiseTM
• 50,000 total TEDx Talks
• 559,625 monthly Meetups
• 2,000,000 annual Eventbrite events
• PLUS 92,000 biz/prof orgs
•

35. Customers

36. Career

37. “You can improve your value by
50 percent just by learning
communication skills - public
speaking."
Warren Buffet on Speaking

38. Cash

39. Connections

40. Credibility
When you are on-stage you
are the expert!.

41. Momentum
Why Now?

45. How Do We Solve for Gender-balance/equity?
• Why put women in place at the top
• Women pay other women more
• When women are leaders, more women are hired.
• Women leaders encourage other women to apply
• Women-led companies may be more successful
• Make women more visible
• When you get more visible, you get promoted
• Female speakers at conferences and events are role models
• The more women on-stage, the more women in the audience

47. How StartupCON Did it
•Set a diversity goal
•Demonstrate commitment to inclusivity in the speaker lineup.
• Add outside-the-organization conference and track chairs
•Marketing partnerships for diversity
•Weekly review of panels, topics, and speakers, always questioning
diversity and gender balance.
•Speaker “asks” were mostly made sequentially

48. Innovation Women Speak! Webinar Series
The Three Secrets to Being a “Viral”
Leader: How to Launch, Lead and Grow
your Organization
Featuring Jen Coken, Author, Life Coach,
and Comedian
January 9, 2019
12:00-1:00 p.m. ET

49. #WhyWait
innovationwomen.com
bobbie@innovationwomen.com