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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

While getting more women interested in natural science and tech is an important issue, the current approach in the States isn't working, and one of the major point in you-know-what is that despite the aggressive, well-intentioned push of female representation in traditional male dominated industries in fictional media(it does go too far sometimes), it does not seem to translate into the real world, ans enforcing a female only job fair also seems also well intentioned but unhelpful, because ultimately, you can't force people to like something.

It's troubling, but there doesn't seem to be an easy solution to this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Curious where you think it goes to far?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe excluding people based on gender in order to fulfil some ideological fantasies about how the world should be?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

well-intentioned push of female representation in traditional male dominated industries in fictional media(it does go too far sometimes),

I think they mean what she means by going too far in fictional media representation.

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