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It's an article about how a group running a retreat targeted their message to change their customer demographics, no more no less.

Whether or not the mechanisms for doing so have sound philosophical and social underpinnings is quite beside the point--they did X, Y, Z, and it appears to have worked.

Go piss and moan about gender (in)equality elsewhere.

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It worked in attracting women (perhaps a certain kind of women, but still). That doesn't mean it didn't have side effects.

I don't understand your problem with people criticizing some of the things they did. It's just saying they wouldn't be attracted to the conference. It's a piece of information the organizers can ignore or not, it's their conference.

I suppose in economic terms it will work out because having more women will attract more men. What mix of people they'll have is another issue.