Wow, so long ago. Yes, Seth, you are correct, I was trying to stress that occupational identity was not appreciated enough in aiming towards diversity.

What was the conference about, Walt asked? He also should have reviewed the official conference write-up. It was really a learning exercise for most. I think you and I were looking forward to it answering more of the hard questions-- and you expected to be disappointed in this regard.

What's a bit odd is that by writing a 4,000-word summary, which might have been more digestible to Walt than the official writeup, I own a bit of the history now. I am happy that one offshoot of the conference led to the women's blogging conference, though I'm not quite sure they're going to tackle the hard questions either.