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by jeff18 4854 days ago
I am pretty sure that is actually illegal
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People who attend conferences about women aren't a protected class. So it wouldn't be illegal unless you could demonstrate that filtering out people who attend conferences about women systematically discriminated against women. This would be fairly difficult at best, and almost impossible unless it were a large organization with an obvious gender imbalance.
IANAL but I expect that if that specific women read this comment she'd now be in a position to sue for discrimination quite effectively.
I should think discriminating based on a proxy for a protected class is still a no-no.