Ahem (taps podium). Class is in session. Quiet in the back, please.

Yes. Now, reviewing: yesterday’s take-home problem was: you’re arranging a conference, and there’s a perception that’s afoot here and there that this venue isn’t particularly a welcoming space for women. There’s a story going about that some hammerhead was wandering about a crowd at your event—a crowd containing persons of the female persuasion wearing skirts—and said numbnuts was carrying a camera on a pole at ankle height, and certain folk took exception. Also, the attendance of women is generally down since recent years, and there is this feeling your cause has been a bit of a male domain traditionally, that women do get hit on kinda heavily and obnoxiously in your spaces, so on… So the question is: how do you send a message that this isn’t the case?

Yes. You there with the ‘Shrek’ t-shirt?

Tell ‘em ‘This is too a safe space for women and we’ll beat up any women who disagree?’

Erm. Right. What did you say your name was, fella?

(/Well, on the bright side, I guess that achieves the ‘Get your audience’s attention’ requirement, sure…)