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I'm annoyed at the lack of detail in TFA. It only mentions this as the end:

Beiermeister started a peer-mentorship program for women at OpenAI in early 2025. The program connected women from different parts of the company and helped them gather in small groups to discuss career strategies, according to people familiar with the matter.

I wonder if it's implying that the discrimination complaint was from a man being excluded from these.

HR ignores (or pays attention) to these issues based on the needs of senior management. She probably was fighting something more senior execs wanted, made some bad waves, or generally outlived her usefulness, etc. so they started to pay attention to these instead of not.

Notably, it’s technically just as illegal to have women only spaces as men only spaces, it was just trendy for awhile to ignore that.

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