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Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) by rimantas on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:51PM (#7097804)
No, there are two word, discrimination and segregation. Men having a bathroom and women not (or vice versa) would be discrimination: one have bathroom, other don't. In having separate bathrooms men have a bathroom and women have a bathroom, no discrimination there.
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Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) by imgabe on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:15PM (#7097996)
No, this not even something we have to argue about. Simply look up the definition of the word:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/discrimination

This conference is about the first definition, not the third.

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Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:52PM (#7097816)
Segregation on an axis requires discrimination on the same axis (if you don't make distinctions, you can't separate.)
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Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) by rimantas on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @02:57PM (#7097863)
Treating differently by "distinctions" is discrimination, not just making them. Otherwise the whole concept of gender is discriminatory.
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Re:Announcing the Female Founders Conference (March 1) by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:45PM (#7098216)
> Treating differently by "distinctions" is discrimination, not just making them.

Segregation is treating people differently by the axis on which segregation occurs.

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