Diversity of representatives in governance bodies

[jdonges]

Shouldn't there be ambitions, rules for fostering/ensuring diversity (gender etc) in representatives in the OMF governance bodies, e.g. the executive committee?

[cmbarton]

There are in the values statement. Will cover this later today.

[platipodium]

Members only send one representative, so they cannot send 50:50 diverse people. And the decision who to send as rep should not depend on the gender balance in the organization.

This argument may carry to the chairs of WGs.

A suggestion to ameliorate this situation would be to double the amount of representatives in all governance bodies, to allow a 50:50 share of diversity aspects.

[De10001]

An organization, or organisation, is an entity—such as a company, an institution, or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose.

[platipodium]

What about this suggestions:

"Each member organisation has at least one vote and at most two votes on the Member's council. More than one votes are given to a member organisation if it sends two representatives that identify with different aspects of diversity"

[platipodium]

Comment by Lisa

Another point: We’ll never “get there” with diversity and inclusion if we agree that it means we have well-rounded representation of our communities (and the globe), so weaving it into the fabric of the foundation, as you’re suggesting, is important. And then looking for mechanisms to keep our diversity principles active (such as you’re suggesting with co-chairs, who will rotate periodically, thus giving the opportunity to evolve).

[platipodium]

Sander comments: Maybe I can suggest that we create a separate document on diversity, rather than put everything in the charter or other current documents

[lauraswantek]

Ethnicity vs Culture vs Nationality in the Values Statement

[platipodium]

Shelley says: AGU’s full diversity program is here…that might give some ideas for considering in the charter, or supporting documents: https://fromtheprow.agu.org/agu-releases-2020-annual-dei-report-and-new-dei-dashboard/

[lisa]

Comment by @lisa:

Another point: We’ll never “get there” with diversity and inclusion if we agree that it means we have well-rounded representation of our communities (and the globe), so weaving it into the fabric of the foundation, as you’re suggesting, is important. And then looking for mechanisms to keep our diversity principles active (such as you’re suggesting with co-chairs, who will rotate periodically, thus giving the opportunity to evolve).

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[platipodium]

Comment by Austin: "To the previous conversation regarding diversity and inclusion, as a kind of compromise, could we formalize a pre-vote proceeding in which we assert our values? The proceeding could be a reading aloud our diversity and inclusion values before votes to introduce new members for example
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