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

  • @cricket97@lemmy.world
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    -111 year ago

    which law prevents a private female only conference from happening? As far as I know, there are no such laws.

    • @Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      101 year 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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        -41 year 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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          41 year 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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            11 year 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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              01 year 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.

              • @cricket97@lemmy.world
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                1 year 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.

              • Nima
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                11 year ago

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

                  • Nima
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                    11 year ago

                    we heard you the first 12 times, dude.