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.

  • 🦄🦄🦄English
    114•2 years ago

    I like how this comment section highlights why a job fair specifically not for cis men is needed lol

    • @PeachMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65•2 years ago

      It’s so fucking cringe. I work in tech, I see how weirdly women get treated and I see their unusually high turnover rate. Early on I was told “women don’t last long here” and it was very true, that woman in particular quit to do freelance work (good for her). Why can’t women have a job fair? Men don’t fucking need one, NEARLY ALL of the other tech job fairs are dominated by men.

      • @cricket97@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7•2 years ago

        If woman want a job fair they should create one that actually only allows women, but given no one seems to have a definition for women, it might be hard to do.

      • @Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•2 years ago

        What’s worse is when you see workplaces that want more women for only the idea it will ‘bring up the standard’ like….I think there’s something telling about the culture alone if they need a specific gender to help understand better standards of working. I would hope they are hiring inclusively for more reasons than just ‘our standards are low cuz the men here are poo and we won’t confront them on it. We will leave it to women to mommy manage it for us. Know any women looking for a job?’

    • NimaEnglish
      21•2 years ago

      some of the comments here are downright scary. women can’t have a single thing, it seems.

      • @rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12•2 years ago

        Yeah, this sucks. It doesn’t surprise me, but it sucks. So many manchildren out there who only think about themselves.

      • @Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        And article makes it clear what is to blame

        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.

        lol

      • 🦄🦄🦄English
        1•2 years ago

        No it does not. The problem was with men that lied about their gender.

        Cullen White, AnitaB.org’s chief impact officer, said in a video posted to X, formerly Twitter, that some registrants had lied about their gender identity when signing up, and men were now taking up space and time with recruiters that should go to women.

        edit: the deleted comment stated that the article claimed they had problems with amab enbies