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by spaceribs 2728 days ago
Considering the other comments here, this isn't going to be a popular opinion, but we should probably being talking about the data rather than how ridiculous/insecure it seems.

I am not proud of how male dominated frontend is, and no one should be: https://2018.stateofjs.com/demographics/gender-breakdown

As you get closer and closer to coding, you can see how this ratio gets smaller and smaller: https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/designer-compensat...

What's at issue here is that coding is a combination of EQ and IQ, and when we create environments that favor "rightness" over common empathy and effective communication, we turn our backs on the people who favor thinking that way (no matter their gender) and we make worse products as a result.

We're not writing code for machines, we're writing code for people.