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Re:PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant p... by wrsh07 on Monday October 27, 2025 @12:17PM (#45722749)
If psf wants supports ten conferences and 9 of them have a typical gender ratio of 7:3 (males:females) and so they support 1 conference with a gender ratio of 3:7, then I think they're in violation of these terms.

Was PSF acting in a discriminatory manner by supporting the tenth conference?

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Re:PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant p... by lingrush4 on Monday October 27, 2025 @12:34PM (#45723008)
If they picked any of the conferences based on the gender of the attendees, then they were pretty obviously discriminating based on a protected characteristic and should face legal ramifications for it.
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Re:PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant p... by wrsh07 on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:04PM (#45723470)
So unintentional discrimination is ok, but intentionally counterbalancing (even extremely tepidly) is very bad?
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