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

  • ChrisLicht@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The paywall dropped on me before I could get to the end of the article, but a couple of observations:

    1. “Overrun” is dehumanizing language. I’m otherwise highly sympathetic, but casting desperate people, many likely staring down deportation unless they can find a new position, as an effective horde is gross. I would like to trust that Wired provided that characterization, not the organizers.

    2. The organizers ruined their own event, by not establishing and enforcing guardrails for attendance. This is a problem mostly of their own making. Rather than pointing, again, at desperate people, they should be accepting responsibility and planning to avoid the issue in the future.