Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech - eviltoast

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

  • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I am simply stating that since there are multiple levels of discrimination in tech, and people might be victim of many of those (classism, ageism, sexism, racism, homo-transphobia, etc.), workers - and in particular victims of discrimination (but also the “privileged” ones) - should acknowledge each other situations

    That sounds like you’re saying the job fair should have just been a job fair for everybody. Which would defeat the problem solving that these groups have worked towards solving simply because what? Guys are left out? Is society just suppose to ignore all solutions now if it doesn’t apply to the entire population? How is that reasonable

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      1 year ago

      Actually I am more referring to the analysis that is being done on the outcome of the fair than to the fair itself. I have no problem with the fact that the event was targeting women. Rather than asking why would some men join this event? Which men joined the event? etc., we stopped at “men steal places meant for women”. No depth in the analysis, no expansion of perspective, just alienation of some workers.