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This one goes out to all the men I know in the real estate industry out there.

Hey fellas, it's conference and event season. This means a flood of posts in my feed about upcoming events — virtual and in person — and I'm excited to see that many of you are speaking at them.

The problem is, I've noticed a real uptick in the number of marketing assets promoting panels full of, you guessed it, only men.

A “manel” is the ugly term for this reality, and I’m pretty sure the real estate industry leading the pack.

Worse than finance for sure.

It's certainly not a new phenomenon, but I've been on LinkedIn for a long time, and my network is pretty big. I get pushed a ton of posts about events across the industry landscape, and it feels like things are getting worse.

I'm not totally innocent here. I know I've been on manels in the past, but I try my absolute hardest not to accept engagements where I know that's going to be the case. At least this season so far, I'm not on any of them, and I'm actually outnumbered by women on every event I know of coming up.

You can't only trust the event organizers to fix this problem. It's up to the people being considered for these panels to flex their muscle and push for other panelists or choose not to participate.

Yes, that might mean giving up your seat and exciting industry visibility to make room for a woman in real estate, construction, proptech, or architecture and design.

She deserves it too, if not more.

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