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I’ve seen active encouragement to violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Specifically Title VII section 703, (d) - Training Programs. “It shall be an unlawful employment practice for any employer, labor organization, or joint labor-management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining, including on-the-job training programs to discriminate against any individual because of his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin in admission to, or employment in, any program established to provide apprenticeship or other training.” By specifically allowing Women to attend the Grace Hopper Conference on company time, funded by the company. Men, are not allowed to attend (unless not male presenting), and thus being discriminated against based upon their sex. At the Grace Hopper conference, there are plenty of sessions which could be argued are training. If the attendees were going for recruiting purposes, I could see it not necessarily violating the law. However, Women are attending to go to the conference (training?) without any recruiting duties. I expect there are similar conferences for POC, which equally violate the Civil rights act. |