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Realistically, this choice would never happen, because any decent software shop would hire both if they were identically qualified.
Not if they have the resources to hire only one.
OK, nobody commented this up to now but I think is important: Among the many posts about this subject I've read on HN recently this was absolutely the best: Not only it approached the matter in a no-nonsense, practical matter without preaching from "the height of an unwritten book" or an axe to grind but it also gives excellent advice to young girls who want to venture into the field. With posts like this I wish ther…
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If the qualification is equal I would very much hope that the person that increases diversity is hired. Why would you do anything else?
I would probably pick the person that meshes with the team best rather than the one that panders to my internal sense of injustice.
"If a male and a female developer with a similar skill level apply for a job, I bet that in 99.9% of the cases the girl will get the job." That looks like sexism to me.
Why is it that people group IT and software development together? To me, they are two completely different fields. For example, I see an IT person as a mail server administrator in a large company, and a developer as the person who would write the mail server software. I'm not saying that an IT professional never writes code, or a developer won't ever touch a Nginx config file. I just mean they are two different type…
It's not like this any more. That's why recently there are so many "software engineers" - you write your Ruby code, install and configure NginX, Passenger etc., even support a cluster of machines (LB, DB, Apps), maybe with a little help for Chef.
It seems like such a general label that can apply to anyone from a chemical engineer to a CS major, it all depends on the context.
"If a male and a female developer with a similar skill level apply for a job, I bet that in 99.9% of the cases the girl will get the job." That looks like sexism to me.
It's only sexism if it uses sex as a criteria to disadvantage someone who isn't male, in the same way that it's only racism if it uses race as a criteria to disadvantage someone who isn't caucasian.
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It's not like this any more. That's why recently there are so many "software engineers" - you write your Ruby code, install and configure NginX, Passenger etc., even support a cluster of machines (LB, DB, Apps), maybe with a little help for Chef.
I think it's interesting that people with a computer science and technical background are often referred to as "engineers" in tech. It seems like such a general label that can apply to anyone from a chemical engineer to a CS major, it all depends on the context.
She wrote org-mode for Emacs. Now she is at IBM Research.
Progress is being made, but there is still a long way to go. This happened in a talk at a programming/web/tech event two weeks ago: http://i.imgur.com/4hL6X.jpg
WTF. How is this ever acceptable in a professional context? Talk about hostility.