ZERO SUM GAME

In tech, diversity is NOT a ZERO SUM GAME. In fact, diversity in tech will almost certainly result in expansion of business. This is because multiple cultural viewpoints actually result in new thoughts, which results in new businesses.

I watched as Yahoo and Google became HUGE doing the brand new thing of searching the internet to get me information.

I have been doing research on the internet since before it was called the internet. I find Google Scholar to be especially helpful for legal research.

I have watched women come up with brilliant ideas, only to have them stolen by men, who then denigrated the woman so that she could not effectively complain. I have watched men sneer at women because women often treat computers as tools, not as toys. Oh, she can't be any good, she does not even enjoy War Craft, they say as justification.

Almost all men, world wide, were raised by people who believed that men and women had different roles in society. This can leave the men with a lifetime of unacknowledged belief in the inability of women to be effective in a male society.

Oh, aren't you pretty, we say to the girls.

Oh, aren't you smart, we say to the boys.

Unless we talk about this, we will not solve it. By yelling or not listening to the concerns of men, women are making solutions more difficult. 

It is entirely possible that women test with more empathy because they are required to do all the family tasks requiring empathy. (Nature versus nurture, if you want to look it up.)

Just do not say that women and minorities can not program or code, because of how their brains are wired.

Because in twenty years, you will be quoted and sound like John Wayne talking about Blacks.

Personally, I think my brain is as good as the brain of any man I know.