[theWatcher37]

Isn’t listening to someone exclusively because of the gender, and not the quality of their idea, exactly what we’re trying to get away from?

“Don’t discount someone just because they’re a woman” is very different from “believe them because they are a woman”.

[jesperlang]

Who decided the quality of the idea? You are acting as if quality is an objective / unbiased concept. That's especially not to so in the tech industry.

Listening means actively and with interest and curiosity taking in someone's idea being presented. Your sentence doesn't make sense, you stop listening as soon as the quality of someone's idea goes down?