I'm the only one at my work in my area where there's about 20 developers total. We have plenty of women in our IT department, but not writing code. We have very few coders in general though maybe, 80 out of the 500 if you include the COTS system developers as well.
I wouldn't want them to bring in more women just to sure up the numbers, if they were crap or didn't really want to be doing it.
I also don't think having more women in coding brings in diverse perspectives, which is the entire point of trying to have a balanced work team. Women who work in typical 'mens' professions do so because they think more like men. I code because I think like a coder. The men on the team also think like coders. We have the same type of brain.
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I'm the only one at my work in my area where there's about 20 developers total. We have plenty of women in our IT department, but not writing code. We have very few coders in general though maybe, 80 out of the 500 if you include the COTS system developers as well. I wouldn't want them to bring in more women just to sure up the numbers, if they were crap or didn't really want to be doing it. I also don't think having more women in coding brings in diverse perspectives, which is the entire point of trying to have a balanced work team. Women who work in typical 'mens' professions do so because they think more like men. I code because I think like a coder. The men on the team also think like coders. We have the same type of brain.