Me too! I will start a workshop for left handed people who wear glasses or contact lenses, in the name of diversity - it seems to be a trend to merge together a common need with any arbitrary attribute. (sorry, I could not resist voicing my opinion on this one. Excluding people because they are not part of a minority is not a practice I want to be generalized)

To put this into perspective, what would you say if someone would advertise a Clojure workshop only for men?

Interesting and unique perspective, thanks for sharing. The point of ClojureBridge and many other minority-focused events, is to foster a less homogeneous community (which in the case of the Clojure & tech community, typically white, male, cishetero) by encouraging others that aren’t from those groups. Lack of diversity isn’t the only reason we promote workshops to people who identify with a particular group. As is the case in the technology industry, lack of diversity is often a symptom of a lack of inclusivity and equal opportunity due to broader systemic issues such as racial and gender bias, ableism, homo- and transphobia and historical inequality. We run these workshops for particular groups in an effort to balance out the inequality of opportunity that still exists across different sections of society and, to use your phrase, a history of excluding people because they are not part of a majority. You’re welcome to start a workshop for left-handed people; I’m not sure why you would but I won’t stop you. Frankly, it’s none of my business.

I was using sarcasm to communicate my point of view - maybe not the best way, I admit. I do not plan to have such event. I am aware about the imbalance and I am also wishing it to be reduced. I ran a Coder Dojo event in Taipei, and I also once attended a code for girl event as a teacher. That later experienced felt pretty weird to me because it felt like the students there were given special treatment, which would inplicitely make them think that the mainstream events are not for them. I later continued to run my Coder Dojo in the way I started it : by presenting it as all-inclusive computer club, for kids. I had in average more girls than boys coming to the club. I think that the key to welcome them is not to create a special event for them, but to create a normal event for everybody, where they feel they also have their place.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/CoderDojo.Taipei/photos/?filter=albums

I also run a code club for children that has equal gender representation, it’s not really significant or representative of the current state of the industry in any way. If you’re actually interested in promoting inclusivity I would absolutely recommend the following resources as a start. I’m off for now. http://projectinclude.org/about/# http://opendiversitydata.org/ https://modelviewculture.com/