Male technologists tend to be pretty poor at empathising: http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/articles/note1271-hudson.pdf http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/articles

Male technologists tend to be pretty poor at empathising: http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/articles/note1271-hudson.pdf http://www.syntagm.co.uk/design/articles/note1271-hudson.pdf "because of low empathizing skills, male technologists will inherently find it difficult to see problems from a user’s perspective. Coupled with the fact that they are excellent systemizers it is not surprising that they do not understand why a system might be confusing to users"