[trhtrhth]

> felt that they were being “excluded” from this cool opportunity.

That's not opinion, it's fact, regardless of the motives for doing it.

> it is rather intimidating for women to get into Computer Science when they walk into a 95% male classroom

Did you intuit that, or is that the result of a real, repeated study?

Are you offering something similar for the men? That's what would make this fair.

[whyrusleeping]

I agree that it is exclusionary, And if this event was something that we had planned ourselves, I would try not to exclude anyone. (We put on club events every week that we regularly invite the student body to). The problem is that this event is Microsoft's thing, and we are kind-of at their whim. My comment about women being intimidated in a 95% male classroom comes from actually talking to different women in our program and hearing what they have to say. And we arent "offering" anything, like I said, this is a Microsoft sponsored event.

[trhtrhth]

You quibble about the term 'offer', but surely you could 'find' or 'discover' something for the men.

And do you tell the women they are going to need to learn to interact with men as part of a professional programming job? Are they only ok with that if they are in the majority?