Today, March 8, is International Women’s Day. A quick run through (by no means thorough) came up with the following number of women on various ICANN groups:
- Board: 4 of 15 or 27%
- Interim ALAC: 5 of 14 or 36%
- Nominating Committee: 3 of 22 or 14%
- GNSO: 5 of 22 or 23%
- ASO: 0 of 15 or 0%
According to International Womens Day.com there are ten organisations dedicated to supporting International Women’s Day. None of these are active in ICANN.
There are a variety of ways for women and women’s groups to get active in ICANN, including:
- The ICANN Nominating Committee positions (see post below)
- Become an At-Large structure if you are a group representing women’s interests on the web
- Get involved in the GNSO non-commercial users constituency
[Jacob of course forgot to include the male/female split within ICANN itself. Thanks to ICANN's administrative assistant Marilyn Vernon - herself a woman - who went through the staff list, we can reveal that there are 38 women and 49 men working at ICANN - a 44/56 percent split - Ed]