[raven105x]

Times like these make it critical to discern between those of a certain gender vs those without talent (or discipline, or perhaps both).

This is difficult to do without unfairly discounting the cases where people with talent still encounter unfair discrimination ...but this isn't it.

There are plenty of female developers / engineers who have their colleagues' respect. They would also never find out they are diversity hires.

If you are simply bad at your job, but also [protected status here], it's suddenly somehow newsworthy - I never liked this part of our culture.