Actively filtering out sexists (, racists, etc.) from your hiring process is a practical necessity for any company. If your company will hire programmers who re

Actively filtering out sexists (, racists, etc.) from your hiring process is a practical necessity for any company. If your company will hire programmers who refuse to acknowledge that women can be technically skilled, imagine what the salespeople hired through this process are saying to female customers. It's only bad options, and one of the worst ones is "nothing".