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If acceptance decisions were made based on gender, that would be discrimination.

The article doesn't say that.

"To keep the selection process fair, Courtney chose applicants based on their pitches only, without looking at the speaker’s identity or gender. The result was a 50/50 split between male and female speakers, which she counted as a success."

It baffles me how you can consider men an "excluded demographic" in this scenario.




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