The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs.

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    1 year ago

    Glad to see federal anti-discrimination law working to prevent these conference organizers from being as sexist as they wanted to be.

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      1 year ago

      If companies were looking for applicants there, it is clear discrimination.

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        1 year ago

        Companies are definitely looking for applicants there, so it would definitely be discriminatory to ban men from it. That's why it would be illegal to ban men:

        "The nonprofit says it believes allyship from men is important and noted it cannot ban men from attending due to federal nondiscrimination protections in the US."

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          People don’t like hearing about it but I worked at one of the major sponsor of a past conference and my employer openly admitted that they wanted to increase the % of women in the company. I think that is gender discrimination but i also want more women at work so i am not personally against that.

          • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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            The kind of discrimination that is a problem is unjust or prejudicial. Diversifying personnel is neither unjust nor prejudicial.

            Rather, this is the good kind of discrimination, where we respect the differences between people.