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

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This really sounds like a failure of the organizers more than anything- first off, lumping in non-binary is a catch all that anyone will take advantage of, and second and most importantly, everyone was complaining about long lines. Long lines means lots of people. Lots of people means the event over-sold their $600-$1000 tickets.

    Sounds like the event organizers were more interested in making money than helping women in tech- women would have had the same problems had it been 100% women.

    Edit: I’m not bashing non binary people, I’m just saying that people will take advantage of it, that’s all.

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      1 year ago

      Including non-binary people was not the problem. Relevant quote:

      AnitaB.org, the nonprofit that runs the conference, said there was “an increase in participation of self-identifying males” at this year’s event. 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.”

      They identified as male, not non-binary, and the event allowed men to come.

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        1 year ago

        So they identified as men, and the event allowed the men to come? Then I’m failing to see what the issue is?

        • jet@hackertalks.com
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          1 year ago

          The problem is, the event’s not allowed to discriminate officially. The article is about lamenting the ability to discriminate