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.

  • LinuxSBC@lemm.eeEnglish
    913·
    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.

    • Otome-chan@kbin.social
      237·
      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.comEnglish
        265·
        1 year ago

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

      • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        the article quotes a bunch of people frustrated at pushing, shoving, line cutting etc at the job fair portion that weren’t visiting presentations - basically people who didn’t want to listen to the speeches but wanted to throw out resumes, fuck everyone else.

        IMO they could solve the problem with a stamp system for people who sat through a presentation but its kind of shitty to have to treat everyone like kids because a couple dudes can’t behave themselves.