That doesn't sound like the kind of behavior anyone would want to encourage. I will say (anecdotally) that the women that I hired as individual technical contr

That doesn't sound like the kind of behavior anyone would want to encourage. I will say (anecdotally) that the women that I hired as individual technical contributors and promoted to managers were (on average -- with a small sample size) better at adapting to their new responsibilities than the men. I didn't hear much of the kind of talk you are talking about -- but I discouraged employee fraternization of that type -- and maybe I was wrong to do so. (This was a while back - maybe norms have changed?)