No more all-male event panels, says public transport body

The Diverse Panels Charter from public transport trade association UITP calls for an end to all-male panels, also known as ‘manels’, at events in the public transport sector.

“You cannot be what you cannot see,” says Lindsey Mancini, Senior Director of Events and Academy Services at UITP, noting that only around one in five employees in public transport are women.

“There are more and more women in the sector, but we need to see them and we need to make them more visible because when they’re visible, other women feel that this is a sector that could be for them.”

At this year’s UITP Global Summit in Barcelona this week, 44 percent of speakers and panellists were women, up from 42 per...