Comment on Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech

Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• PeachMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Soulg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m really being sincere, but why would men magically not need a job fair? They can also be unemployed and struggle to get a job. That’s not a 2x specific issue.

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    • CaptFeather@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Because men dominate the tech industry. It just doesn’t make sense to hold one for men.

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Eh… I think it does, but for different reasons. The tech industry has a relatively high rate of unemployment. Job fairs would be good for everyone.

        I agree that women have unique issues in tech and a women-only job fair would be a good thing. I just think General-admission job fairs are useful now too.

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Eh… I think it does, but for different reasons. The tech industry has a relatively high rate of unemployment. Job fairs would be good for everyone.

        I agree that women have unique issues in tech and a women-only job fair would be a good thing. I just think General-admission job fairs are useful now too.

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    • PeachMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess I’ll just copy and paste from my previous comment:

      NEARLY ALL of the other tech job fairs are dominated by men.

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  • cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Way to be exactly the type of person they are referring to.

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      • cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        what type of person who referred to?

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    • UnculturedSwine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Federal anti-discrimination laws disallow this. It has nothing to do with the “definition of women”.

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      • cricket97@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        which law prevents a private female only conference from happening? As far as I know, there are no such laws.

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  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why can’t women have a job fair?

    Laws.

    I agree with you, it’s just not the way the laws were written.

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    • rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah but been could be mature enough to stay away from it. Instead they act like they’re being oppressed. All the other job fairs are already dominated by men.

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  • Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 men 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?’

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• Nima@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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

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• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah if there’s ever a sign that a group doesn’t need representation is when they brigade someone who does.

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• robo@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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