> Also, can anyone explain why it is considered a "good thing" to have a gender balance in tech, or any industry?
We strive for a balance because that's a good way to avoid excluding people. Excluding groups of people is bad because they may have different ways to attack problems or different insights to bring to development etc.
Mono-cultures are generally weak and vulnerable. Diversity is generally robust.
>We strive for a balance because that's a good way to avoid excluding people. Excluding groups of people is bad because they may have different ways to attack problems or different insights to bring to development etc.
We exclude all sorts of groups, including the incompetent, all the time. There are cases when the benefits of including some group may cause a net detriment due to other factors.
>Mono-cultures are generally weak and vulnerable. Diversity is generally robust.
These glittering generalities are not backed up by any facts. "Diversity" often causes more problems than it purportedly solves, and generalizing "mono-cultures" as "weak and vulnerable" is not something that you can base on facts.
We strive for a balance because that's a good way to avoid excluding people. Excluding groups of people is bad because they may have different ways to attack problems or different insights to bring to development etc.
Mono-cultures are generally weak and vulnerable. Diversity is generally robust.