There have been, are currently, and always will be differences between the way men and women think. However, there are also differences in personalities within the same sexes. Code is much like handwriting. One may be able to tell a gender difference with certain types, but, generally, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to tell male from female and vice versa. I am not a programmer or developer, I am a middle-aged woman with a degree in History, but I can figure out that saying something like this was as wrong as saying men are better than women at washing dishes or cooking.

Emma, honey, you can stroke your own ego without having to insult other people to do it. In my opinion, if you have to stroke your own ego, you’re not very good at what you do.

“The female half of the human species has customarily been discriminated against in most human societies [44]. Cultures around the world have assigned their females labels from houseslave [3] to demoness [39]. “

I simply don’t believe that you hadn’t thought about this topic before.
I believe you’ve felt some of the heat resulting from your opinions and are trying to cover up.
If you didn’t have an opinion on gender related to work, you should have said so in the interview. Instead you gave very clear answers on how women are “better” and how you are trying to promote women into the workforce.
You are sexist; and should not be in a position of authority.

http://www.uleth.ca/gendersymposium/Kim.doc

The Future Work section includes a lot of work that I would like to have done towards getting some more definitive findings together, but didn’t have the time/funding. If anyone’s interested in pursuing the research, I’d love to hear from you. I think this is an extremely valuable pursuit. Figuring out the actual differences between men’ and women’s code will go a long way towards breaking down the programming languages barriers.

Is the meta-press you’re getting around this interview an intentional part of your “viral marketing” campaign, or are you really this dense?

The best part is where you say you can tell with 70%-80% accuracy whether the code you are looking at was written by a man or a woman at your company. But you also say that 80% of the coders are men.

Congratulations, you’re doing WORSE THAN CHANCE.

Yeah, women are much more likely to have strong leadership skills and will sacrifice work/life balance to do anything it takes to resolve things. Women will never let a bad situation perpetuate, they are highly confrontational to adverse situations.

What planet are you on? These are blatantly male characteristics.

But I’m still going to say it, from what I’ve seen (which I do NOT claim to apply to all women, unlike the author does with men) women make terrible coders, they’re code can be “pretty” and “well-documented”, but most of the code I’ve seen was terribly long and inefficient, didn’t handle errors correctly and was eventually rewritten by men into short, efficient functions that handle errors perfectly.

And I’d much rather have good code than crap code with lots of explanation.

Also in your interview you say that the women mainly handle localisation and stuff, the men do most of the actual coding, of course there’ll be more documentation done by the woman, it’d take an idiot (or someone who doesn’t understand software development, like the audience of your horribly biased interview) to actually think that these figures hold up when comparing people doing completely different things.

I think you should never have said women and men, you should have said that programmers document less than those responsible for localisation, but that of course wouldn’t get your biased point across