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They don't bother me, it is just that I think they might hurt women more than they help. If they helped we should have seen it in the statistics a long time ago

They don't bother me, it is just that I think they might hurt women more than they help. If they helped we should have seen it in the statistics a long time ago. Instead I think that they just redistribute the women who already are in tech to different schools/companies. You could say that doing something is better than doing nothing even if it is worthless, but I don't agree. Celebrating tokenism just means that companies will pat themselves on their backs for implement these token measures and then forget about their diversity problem.

richmarr 9y ago
> They don't bother me, it is just that I think they might hurt women more than they help. Perhaps you can see why being told by you (presumably a man) that they shouldn't do the thing that they want to do because you know what's best for them might not go down well? Be my guest :) You'll find that people make choices for reasons other than industry statistics. Many people feel more comfortable at those events because mainstream events can have conduct issues and bias issues. Of course exclusive events are far from an ideal, but labelling them as "worthless" misunderstands why people do them.