Discussion on question by optimal control: How to balance the need for gender equality in seminar organisation with finding suitable presenters

@deee Take mathematics as an example. At the university I studied everybody with a high school degree could just come and study mathematics. More of three quarters of the students were men. This goes on into the PhD and PostDoc phase. Of course, an academic career discriminates against people who want to start a family. But even without all this, men would still outnumber women by at least a factor of 3.