The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Women in Engineering (RAS WIE) Committee set out to understand one aspect of representation: that of women in the primary conference leadership and speaker roles at RAS-supported conferences. We found that 1) despite recent improvement, the representation of women remains low (about 20%); 2) a small pool of women tends to hold these roles; and 3) there is a correlation between increased gender diversity in the leadership roles and a woman appointed as general chair. The improvements in gender diversity are encouraging, but there is more work to do. To make further progress, RAS WIE has made the following recommendations to the RAS Administrative Committee with support from several other RAS subcommittees on several points. To reach these recommendations, we asked ourselves two questions when considering what we need to do as a community. We hope they are useful and inspire you to think about even more ways to improve representation.

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会议领导的性别多样性 [工程领域的女性]

IEEE 机器人与自动化学会工程女性 (RAS WIE) 委员会着手了解代表性的一个方面：女性在 RAS 支持的会议上担任主要会议领导和演讲者角色。我们发现 1) 尽管最近有所改善，但女性的代表性仍然很低（约 20%）；2）一小部分女性倾向于担任这些角色；3) 领导角色的性别多样性增加与被任命为总主席的女性之间存在相关性。性别多样性的改善令人鼓舞，但还有更多工作要做。为了取得进一步进展，RAS WIE 在其他几个 RAS 小组委员会的支持下，向 RAS 管理委员会提出了以下建议。为了达到这些建议，在考虑我们作为一个社区需要做什么时，我们问了自己两个问题。我们希望它们是有用的，并激励您思考更多的方法来提高代表性。