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

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      11 months ago

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

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        11 months ago

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

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          11 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.

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            11 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

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              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.