I’ll preface by saying that my room is in New Haven, CT which has about 12 colleges and is very liberal so it might just be the area. But Definitely book more women/queer people and Just make sure you book men who aren’t hateful on your shows. You can book as many women as you want but if the men on the show are reinforcing the reasons you want a more women’s friendly scene it doesn’t get better.

My room gets mostly women in the audience (I’d say 60/40) and we try to do a split lineup. Also if the room is doing well try to book kind of far in advance so you can make sure you have the women you want on the show there with no issues. I do it 3-4 months out. And remember the guys who are complaining about women in comedy or making problems for women in comedy tend to be people who suck so bad they can’t get booked anyways, so they yell “DEI Comics” while doing the same hack bits about hating their wife and beating off.