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Men Overran a Job Fair for Women in Tech (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

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