Of the 22 participants in my Geneva seminars, 14 were women (and still are, I expect!) and 8 were men.
Given the infinitesimally small sample size, I’d be bonkers to derive any conclusions from that. But I’ve noted, albeit unscientifically, that more often than not in my other public seminars the women have outnumbered the men.
And in education generally, at least in the U.S., it seems clear that women are outperforming men. (See, for example, this 2006 article in the New York Times and this piece from the National Bureau of Economic Research about how women outnumber men in American colleges.)
Given the modest imbalance I’ve noted at my seminars, I wonder whether a similar imbalance is on display among contract managers and among in-house counsel responsible for transactional matters. Do any of you have any empirical evidence on that score?
