Edit: To clarify, a nonprofit women’s forum appears fine, but turning it into a business not so much.
I sometimes hang out with people from my native country; that doesn't mean I'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's occasionally nice to be immersed in a group of people who understand that.
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 "subset community" would be far more useful for folks who don't fit that dominant model.
Not saying you don't know them, but I am saying that admitting to wanting to talk to other women has traditionally been admitting to weakness in the workplace.
Clearly some women don’t like places like that:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14702676
As I wrote in a comment on that story, I have a theory: Women-only groups aren’t just “Women-only”, they also exclude women with these beliefs [from the linked article]. But this is far from obvious, so women at these group gatherings see only themselves, and it becomes an echo chamber where they believe they represent all women’s views on this subject.
segregation has happened before.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Burning
Also, Mississippi Burning? Do you not realize the extent of hyperbole in that comparison?
