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Re:Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment co... by tajen on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @12:18AM (#11672629)
I already don't talk to women in tech conferences. Ok I'll use a different axis. The side effect of working hard on promoting women in tech and tracking harassement is prejudices on the innocent men. As a bystander I want to be given the confidence that men who are fired are guilty. I have seen 2 cases of termination of males, I'm the opposite of convinced. I've also seen more women being promoted than men. I've also seen the upgrade of codes of conduct in conferences from "the law" to "the law + we'll beat harassement". There is a lot of prejudice that men are violent, less smart and worse at communication than women. So of course companies and conferences must act on both harassement and increasing women-in-tech; but as a society we must also find a way to prove to males that innocent good-will ones are safe.

As for me, for the moment I'm bitter against the promotion game, I've founded my own company and I'm voting against any progress of women.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment co... by rpcastagna on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:14AM (#11674518)
> I've founded my own company and I'm voting against any progress of women.

I'm not sure you're going to establish a moral high ground by explicitly opposing the progress of equality... I understand you have concerns and you may feel you've been wronged by "gender aware" policies/attitudes, but I don't think it's very controversial to say that women are historically disadvantaged and we need to work that out in some way, however that may be.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I deal with the first sexual harassment co... by tajen on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:30AM (#11674623)
That's the opposite of what we want to happen? It's important to prove males that they aren't discriminated when we act on women's problems.
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