[GuiA]

> By the time I left engineering, I found the fairly homogenous and almost exclusively-male mode of social interaction rather tiring.

Yes. This is one of the things I dislike the most about the startup world. I grew up with strong female authority figures, most of my direct academic advisors were women, and the first startup I worked at had a female CEO and a female CTO... over the years I've discovered that I tend to fare better with female leadership.

With an exclusively male office, there are some days during which the only woman I interact with is my girlfriend.