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Re: How to get women into computing
The comment could have just as easily been made by a male not wanting to work in a male only environment. I think it really doesn’t matter which side you’re looking at it from. It’s more about variety. In a work environment where you have people with different backgrounds and points of views, (assuming you’re open minded, heh) you will likely end up with a better product, be it code or otherwise. A wider range of experiences means more refined decisions.
Also, hopefully, you’d make products that appealed to more groups. As noted many times in these comments, products made for females by males just seem like a bad idea. If you want products made for everybody, then you should employ everybody to make them.