There are 9 staff, not including a few advisors. So its probably the case that they all knew each other before the comapny existed. If there were no women in their lab, theres not much they can do about that.
What would the correct response be? "Sorry we didn't know any women when we started, we shouldnt have done anything until the right quota of women showed up."
Should they fire and replace 4 staff with women or just hire 9 women even though they might not have enough revenue to do so?
Lesson learned. Subsequent attempts to engage sincerely were also met with derision, so I'm not sure anything could have ever been done that wouldn't have been met similarly.
The responses are the damaging aspect here. "Our salaries are low" and "we don't have any EAs" are just painfully bad ways to respond.
Seriously, what are they supposed to do to resolve it? Fire two partners and hire two women just to make an equality quota? Hire four new women just on the merit of being women?
I count thirteen: https://lbry.io/team
"Im sorry. We cannot hire yo for employment at this time because you are male."
Yeah... That would be a lawyers fieldday.
Although this is actually this account's second comment.