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

  • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    109 months ago

    Read The Fucking Article, that’s the exact reason they allowed men at the conference in question: federal nondiscrimination laws

    • @cricket97@lemmy.world
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      -49 months ago

      I’m saying I don’t buy that reason. There are no laws (afaik) that prevent exactly what I described. Federal discrimination laws typically refer to employment or public places, not private events.

      • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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        49 months ago

        This is an employment related event. Anti discrimination laws apply to applicants.

        If it was just a networking event, no problem, ban men

        • @cricket97@lemmy.world
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          19 months ago

          I don’t believe there are any laws that make that illegal. There are plenty of black only recruiting events, there was one at my college. If you can find me a law that says this is illegal I will bite my tongue, but from what I can tell it applies to employers, not anything close to recruiting events.

          • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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            09 months ago

            I swear to fucking christ

            Are you a lawyer? Because the legal team of this event made this decision

            I’m not citing case law to you just because you think you know better than a team of actual lawyers. Jesus.

            • Nima
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              19 months ago

              good lord, relax. he’s obviously saying he thinks they should be permitted to have women only events.

            • @cricket97@lemmy.world
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              9 months ago

              chill… just discussing how i feel about a topic on a discussion forum. not that serious, you’re under no obligation to reply.

              This statement didn’t come from lawyers btw. I suggest you look into non discrimination laws and youll see why i feel the way i do.