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

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

  • Crisps@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2617·
    1 year ago

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

    • psychothumbs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      227·
      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.”

      • 5BC2E7@lemmy.worldEnglish
        610·
        1 year ago

        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.worldEnglish
          125·
          1 year ago

          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.