I was interviewed by reporter Jeffrey Perkel of Nature Index about reducing manels. Check out his article here:

natureindex.com/news-blog/say-no-to-manels-all-male-panels-research-science-conference

Long short of it, there’s an app to calculate the diversity of your conference panel: http://aanandprasad.com/diversity-calculator/?groupName=women&numSpeakers=20&populationPercentage=10

 

Use it!