1. I thought gender-based discrimination was illegal. How is Leap not illegal?
2. One of the main objections of "gentleman's clubs" was that their (male) members had access to important networking contacts, putting women in unequal foot in an unfair way when it came to businesses. Wouldn't Leap be unfair in the same way?
This assumption completely disregards the measurable advantage men have in the tech community. If you have identical programs, one for a historically disenfranchised group, and one for the group that's been in power for decades, only one of those programs is shitty.
edit: "Advantage" was a poor choice of words, but since it's been quoted in replies I'll leave it. I meant something more like "given the gender disparities in the tech community."
What is that advantage and how is it measured ?
-Pay Gap: https://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gen...
-Employment Gap: https://www.forbes.com/sites/christinawallace/2016/10/20/gir...
-Leadership Gap: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-02/why-so-fe...
-Visibility Gap: https://hbr.org/2016/09/to-succeed-in-tech-women-need-more-v...
-Sexism/Hostile Workplaces: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-...
-Hiring Discrimination: https://www.aauw.org/2015/06/11/john-or-jennifer/
-General Discrimination: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/20/the-tech-indus...
And just in case you missed it the last time: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_incidents