> I really do think that women write better code. Is such a view helpful though? I've found I really can't judge this is advance at all, regardless of gender.

> I really do think that women write better code. Is such a view helpful though? I've found I really can't judge this is advance at all, regardless of gender. Or anything else really. So any generalisation like "x write better code" is going to disadvantage somebody. The best you can do is give everybody the same chance (and obviously you should be doing that already). Fun anecdote: We used to look at degrees, e.g. was it CS or from a "good" university/college. But we crunched the numbers, and it turned out degree-specifics had almost 0 correlation with how good a candidate was. There'll always be one English major who writes kick-ass code. So now we use an online code tests instead to filter out applicants.