Maybe there would have been more testing on female voices if there were more female engineers, but that is sort of ancillary solution to a problem of poor produ

Maybe there would have been more testing on female voices if there were more female engineers, but that is sort of ancillary solution to a problem of poor product design and testing. It also fails to address the underlying problem that there are simply nowhere near an equal number of available female engineers as male engineers. Shooting for a goal of 50:50 ratio when that is not anywhere close to the ratio of the available candidates makes it mathematically impossible to not make other sacrifices...for what objective? Your claim is that there are things that female engineers bring to the table that male engineers do not. My claim is that there is nothing a male engineer can do on the basis of their gender that a female cannot, and the inverse is equally true. In fact, I can't imagine a more offensive argument than saying "we need more female engineers so that our app is better at handling women's periods."