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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by manfredo on Friday March 22, 2019 @02:26PM (#19465435)
> Is it fair to claim equal opportunity when you give more opportunities to other people?

Googles careers page advertises that they're both in equal opportunity employer and an affirmative action employer:

> Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

https://careers.google.com/teams/?&src=Online/House%20Ads/BK...

So I guess the answer is yes.

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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by llama052 on Friday March 22, 2019 @04:05PM (#19466362)
That's so strange to me, how do you define equal opportunity when you directly affect that opportunity based on third party factors out of someones control.
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Re:Women: Learn to Program This Summer by rosege on Friday March 22, 2019 @05:27PM (#19467138)
I believe oxymoron is what its called.

[a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction]

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