{"id":43647,"date":"2018-12-07T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T13:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=43647"},"modified":"2018-12-13T13:45:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T12:45:35","slug":"mary-e-black-manels-and-what-to-do-about-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2018\/12\/07\/mary-e-black-manels-and-what-to-do-about-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary E Black: &#8220;Manels&#8221; and what to do about them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\">Mary E Black on how to avoid manels<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Manels<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/2017\/07\/05\/on-the-radar-manel\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">speaker panels consisting entirely of Caucasian males<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are getting rarer, but still persist. I witnessed an example at the NHS England\/NHS Improvement session on the new NHS Long Term plan in London. Pretty well all of our senior NHS leaders are white men and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/digital.nhs.uk\/news-and-events\/latest-news\/narrowing-of-nhs-gender-divide-but-men-still-the-majority-in-senior-roles\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">majority of senior staff<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are too, so if you want to land all the big names at your NHS event, a manel is what you may well get.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was a name in the past for all-women gatherings. They were known as covens and often the participants were burned at the stake. Manels suffer a lighter fate and may be awarded the witty <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/05\/24\/david-hasselhoff-becomes-the-unlikely-face-of-campaign-against-a\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congrats you have an all male panel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d social media stamp which includes David Hasselhof\u2019s smiling face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/manels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43651\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/manels-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/manels-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/manels.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I want our speakers to inspire, to model what we would like our organisations to be, to be role models, and to change things for the better. So how can we circumvent Manels? <\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Know the evidence. There is outright discrimination and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2018\/04\/25\/bjsports-2018-099084\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">implicit bias<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in designing conferences and organising panels, creating a vicious cycle of women never getting onto the \u201cusual suspects\u201d list. Women from black and ethic minorities face double jeopardy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Don\u2019t convene one. It works best if you agree in advance that your organisation, group, or conference will convene diverse panels. A knee jerk selection of the usual suspects can be prevented if you consider expert and speaker lists well in advance. There are many good online resources for diverse speakers that you can consult. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are a man, think carefully before sitting on a manel. This may mean <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owen.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">declaring in advance that you won\u2019t<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or helping your organisation set criteria for contributing staff as speakers. NHS Digital has taken a stand on this and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/7766db38-46dd-11e8-8ae9-4b5ddcca99b3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the <em>Financial Times<\/em> has too<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, so why can\u2019t the NHS? Ask yourself<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">does it really have to be me? Men may neither realise nor accept that something they\u2019re involved in has the effect of marginalizing women, but isn\u2019t it time they did? \u00a0Share the podium, give up some power occasionally, and explain why you are doing so. You will be admired for it.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Write to organisers if you see a manel about to form, for example in the advance notice for a conference. Point out that it is 2018. Ask them to try harder.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Protest, but safely. Perhaps the suffragettes needed to throw themselves under horses, be force fed, or blow things up to be taken seriously, but these days we should be able to talk about and resolve these things more easily. Ask an innocent question from the audience during a Manel (e.g. are there really no women who know about this topic?) and see what happens. Lots of seat shifting and adoring references to daughters. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5775963\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Speaking about it helps<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Humour works<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I like sharing the manel bingo card.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/female-conference-speaker-bingo-e1348511495522.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43650\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/female-conference-speaker-bingo-e1348511495522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/female-conference-speaker-bingo-e1348511495522.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/female-conference-speaker-bingo-e1348511495522-271x300.jpg 271w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2018\/12\/female-conference-speaker-bingo-e1348511495522-640x707.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It can be worse outside healthcare (at least we have plenty of women, although they may still be ignored, overlooked, or written out of the leadership and representation story). At <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouroceanwealth.ie\/oow-summit\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ireland\u2019s 2018 Ocean Wealth conference<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Galway this summer I sat through 26 middle-aged white men in a row arguing for future investment in Ireland\u2019s Blue economy. It got quite &#8220;same&#8221; after a few hours, and Ireland did not appear as the forward-looking nation that the convenors were trying to project (the technical term is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">unfortunate optics<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">). Fortunately after lunch the conference was revived by an electrifying panel including a former Irish president, an astronaut, and the producer of Blue Planet, expertly convened by one of Ireland\u2019s foremost journalists. All happened to be women, and the female organiser admitted to \u201cgoing overboard\u201d on women as she knew the morning sessions would not. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Why am I banging on about Manels\u2014do I want to be ever the awkward, ungrateful harpy? No, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I would much rather spend my time on important things, like being a public health doctor, building my health tech company, or knitting and applying nail polish (not at the same time<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">taxes my brain). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Recently I pointed out to the eminent male chair of one of my organisations that we had inadvertently convened a Manel. He spluttered that he could not help being a man (and nor could the other speakers), and asked if I expected him to solve the gender balance at our event by turning up in a dress. My mistake was in not immediately replying &#8220;yes.&#8221; Just to see his jaw drop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2013\/07\/maryeblack-copy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27956\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2013\/07\/maryeblack-copy.png\" alt=\"maryeblack copy\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2013\/07\/maryeblack-copy.png 160w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2013\/07\/maryeblack-copy-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 124px) 100vw, 124px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Mary E Black<\/strong>\u00a0is a public health doctor.\u00a0She is on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrMaryBlack\">@DrMaryBlack<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong>\u00a0I have no relevant interests to declare.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"lead-asset-copyright-label\">Photo credit of the Hoffsome stamp:<\/span> \u00a0SAARA S\u00c4RM\u00c4\/TUMBLR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary E Black on how to avoid manels [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2018\/12\/07\/mary-e-black-manels-and-what-to-do-about-them\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mary-e-black"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mary E Black: &quot;Manels&quot; 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