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.

  • cricket97@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    1 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.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 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.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 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.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 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.worldEnglish
            21·
            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@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

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