during my career as a graphics programmer ive been invited to speak on a few panels and every time its a huge honor, and i feel petty and ungrateful to complain about it, but every single one of those panels was a "woman" panel. women in STEM one, women in gamedev one, women in mixed reality, and so on. its like convention organizers are saying "you're very eminent in your field. i mean, like, for a girl"