Apple Entrepreneurship Camp for Women

https://developer.apple.com/entrepreneur-camp/?cid=ec-e-en-001

by obenn • 8 years ago

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dapole• 8 years ago

This sounds like a great idea on paper, but with Apple being based in California who has some of the most strict anti-discrimination laws, this seems to violate the Unruh act by deciding who can attend strictly by sex? Is this not illegal? Wouldn’t they have covered themselves better by saying underserved?

magma17• 8 years ago

The third member of your team may be any gender.

xiphias2• 8 years ago

If they would want equality, it should be symmetric (for example 2 women, 2 men, or 1 woman, 1 man, and 1 any gender). This is clear discrimination against men (though not the first one that we have seen in the past few years).

superkuh• 8 years ago

Yep. It's clearly in violation of the 1974 modification to section 51,

“All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, or medical condition are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.”

sjroot• 8 years ago

This is cool! What I would really like to see from Apple, however, is for them to leverage their retail facilities to make this kind of training more accessible around the world.

With Today at Apple (https://www.apple.com/today/), they already have the technical infrastructure in place as well.

threatofrain• 8 years ago

Recent discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18537211

jotadambalakiri• 8 years ago

I read it as Entrepreneurship Cams :)

nik736• 8 years ago

I don't understand what gender has to do with Entrepreneurship.

Research shows that women face unique challenges in technology, especially when starting and leading companies.

Which research? They don't even link to a source for that claim.

badpun• 8 years ago

Also, "research" is a low bar unfortunately, with the amount of low-quality (or no-quality) papers being written.

brighton36• 8 years ago

Why is this flagged?

c1yd3i• 8 years ago

Jeez. SJW mods?

bartoszhernas• 8 years ago

Sexism is fine as long as it benefits women now huh? Crazy times we live in...

There would be completly different response if Apple (or anyone) would open "Camp for Men only".

Apple Entrepreneurship Camp for Women

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