[helen842000]

Limiting tickets alone doesn't ensure that equal number of men/women show up.

If they hadn't done all of the other stuff it may have been the case they sold 50 male tickets and zero female tickets.

People seem to assume that if tickets are there then women show up. It takes a lot of encouragement to get that to happen.

Also I'd like to add I'd be more encouraged to join a 50/50 style hackathon than a female only one. I think they did a great job.