as the question raised in another thread here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9372297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9372297), on this very sa

as the question raised in another thread here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9372297 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9372297), on this very same topic "what are the real benefits and downsides (commercial and noncommercial) for the hiring preference of female over male, for microsoft and for the whole society?" One of the reasons I could come up with is, "the industry hiring process starts to favor women than men, is to add more feminine elements in the product/service they sell, through increasing the women ratio in their team, and hence to attract more women consumers and also perhaps the feminine side of straight and gay men."