Hi Tim, thanks for responding. I realise that in my write-up I forgot to mention that I had a good time and that I think these events are really good - my previous criticisms about the lack of female bloggers represented at UP aside,

My promotion of the PrettyPrettyPretty party was just piggy-backing onto this post, it really has no relation to what I see is the issue at hand - a lower number of women in IT. It would have been more relevant to highlight the upcoming Girl-Geek Dinner, but since that's all sold out I figured it wasn't fair to make women who missed out on tickets feel bad about it!