Your perspective is over simplified. People are unique individuals, and as a group we fit distributions. Certainly there are trends within genders, but we can find examples of any gender at any point along any metric of measurement you like.
The point is to stop generalizing and start relating to the real person standing in front of you, no matter what organs or identity they're equipped with.
You also have a trivialized view of success in our industry. Social skills matter. Software development is a team process.
The reason we're so AAAAAAAAAMAZED this still happens is that once you've some awareness of this, it's baffling that everyone else keeps sticking to these old meaningless generalizations. On the whole we're a smart lot. We should be acting smarter than this.
Your perspective is over simplified. People are unique individuals, and as a group we fit distributions. Certainly there are trends within genders, but we can find examples of any gender at any point along any metric of measurement you like.
The point is to stop generalizing and start relating to the real person standing in front of you, no matter what organs or identity they're equipped with.
You also have a trivialized view of success in our industry. Social skills matter. Software development is a team process.
The reason we're so AAAAAAAAAMAZED this still happens is that once you've some awareness of this, it's baffling that everyone else keeps sticking to these old meaningless generalizations. On the whole we're a smart lot. We should be acting smarter than this.