Y Combinator’s Women-Only Forum Is Becoming Its Own Business

This may be illegal in California. Discrimination on the basis of sex for events open to the public is forbidden. It’s quite broadly construed too, for example bars can’t legally have ladies night.<p>Edit: To clarify, a nonprofit women’s forum appears fine, but turning it into a business not so much.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unruh_Civil_Rights_Act" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Unruh_Civil_Rights_Act</a>

I don&#x27;t know why so many commentators are taking a polar stance.<p>I sometimes hang out with people from my native country; that doesn&#x27;t mean I&#x27;m unhappy with the USA or Americans born here. Some things still strike me as weird, and some things I do strike others as weird so it&#x27;s occasionally nice to be immersed in a group of people who understand that.<p>And I come from an English-speaking country and am treated like a white male (not true for me as a kid before I came here). I think this phenomenon of sometimes stepping into a &quot;subset community&quot; would be far more useful for folks who don&#x27;t fit that dominant model.

What’s more feminist, more female CEOs or eliminating CEOs entirely?

None of the women techies I know would be caught dead associating with something like this.

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a female only group is a rational response to a brogrammer culture. a desire for a femcentric branch forum {note i didnt say sub forum} is something that should be taken as a symptom of a systemic problem. women, are already segregated devalued and even attacked for thier gender, right here in SV, and right here in YC and HN. ostriches are not the only bird that thrust thier heads in the sand.<p>segregation has happened before.<p>en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mississippi_Burning