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Re:All Male Panelist talks about Gender Equality & Inclusion... by onion2k on Thursday April 21, 2016 @02:28AM (#11540051)
Better a couple guys talk about it than nobody at all.

The alternative to this panel is not "nothing".

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Re:All Male Panelist talks about Gender Equality & Inclusion... by Tiquor on Thursday April 21, 2016 @03:48AM (#11540287)
It very will might be if companies catch flack every time they put something like this together and for some reason or another are not able to meet some Facebook commenter's preferred representation ratios.
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Re:All Male Panelist talks about Gender Equality & Inclusion... by manicdee on Thursday April 21, 2016 @04:43AM (#11540484)
You make it sound like alternatives are an either/or thing.

Here are other alternatives:

- nobody runs a panel for fear of backlash - panel entirely of telepathic octopods - a mixture of men and women biased towards men - a mixture of men and women biased towards women

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Re:All Male Panelist talks about Gender Equality & Inclusion... by qbrass on Thursday April 21, 2016 @07:05PM (#11545958)
A mixture of men and women biased towards telepathic octopods.
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