It would be helpful to know the likelihood of continued attendance broken down by combinations of gender and academic field. It’s plausible to me that the breakdown of academic fields between “women coming to their first EA event” and “men coming to their first EA event” could be significantly different, and that this difference could explain much of the difference in continued attendance. It’s also plausible that, after controlling for academic field, women are significantly less likely to continue attending than men (e.g., women with a STEM background are less likely to continue attending than men with a STEM background, etc.)
My hunch is that both of these dynamics play a part in explaining lower levels of continued attendance by women. My confidence in the relative magnitude of each effect is pretty low.
It would be helpful to know the likelihood of continued attendance broken down by combinations of gender and academic field. It’s plausible to me that the breakdown of academic fields between “women coming to their first EA event” and “men coming to their first EA event” could be significantly different, and that this difference could explain much of the difference in continued attendance. It’s also plausible that, after controlling for academic field, women are significantly less likely to continue attending than men (e.g., women with a STEM background are less likely to continue attending than men with a STEM background, etc.)
My hunch is that both of these dynamics play a part in explaining lower levels of continued attendance by women. My confidence in the relative magnitude of each effect is pretty low.