[long_time_gone]

There are multiple types of diversity, no?

==Women pioneers have been a part of AT&T since 1878. That’s when Emma Nutt joined a team of teenage boys at a telephone exchange in Boston to become the first female operator. Within a few years almost all the telephone operators were women. Those female operators rose to the occasion during World War I, operating the telephone switchboards for the U.S. Army in France.==

==“As a result, AT&T and its subsidiaries became the largest employer of women in the United States,” he said. “At its peak, in the early 1950s, AT&T employed over 200,000 women as telephone operators.”==

https://about.att.com/pages/our_people/Our_innovators/female...

[throwaway3699]

Sure, but aren't you implying there no female developers that would work on this software?

[long_time_gone]

I’m not implying anything. I’m stating the fact that diversity can come in many different shapes, sizes, and shades as shown by AT&T.

It’s also worth point this out as well while we are talking about AT&T and politics: “ Cramer calls AT&T the ‘most Republican of any publicly traded company’”

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/09/cramer-calls-att-the-most-re...

[majewsky]

Telephone operators were female because female voices were easier to understand on contemporary telephones (their voice frequencies had a better signal/noise ratio). Their hiring into this specific profession is in fact a counter-example to inclusivity, since one gender was predominantly hired for this role specifically.