Yep - a pool party with professional women at a conference is just asking for trouble. If you don't invite them you're being "exclusionary." If you do invite

Yep - a pool party with professional women at a conference is just asking for trouble. If you don't invite them you're being "exclusionary." If you do invite them, then 7 years later when you're about to be appointed to the board of directors she writes a blog post about how you drunkenly grabbed her waist and told her she had nice tits. Tech companies encourage it too... because they want us all to have our entire social lives wrapped up in the company. Oh - you don't want drinks with coworkers after-hours? Maybe you're not a cultural fit? F--- you, I do the job you pay me for, let me keep work and social life completely separate.