A real-world example: we were in negotiations about a big project with a vendor. We - a team of guys about the same age - had a lot of issues with the technical

A real-world example: we were in negotiations about a big project with a vendor. We - a team of guys about the same age - had a lot of issues with the technical solution the vendor proposed. The next day they brought in a very attractive blonde engineer, and my useless straight colleagues would be gazing at her legs rather than asking tough technical questions. The vendor wouldn't have tried this if we had some women on the team.