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I for one dont care who answers my question, man, woman, member of long lost indian tribe from amazon or a teapot, as long as the question is answered and i can get on with my work.

In fact, I fail to see the point of this article. Even its title fails to make a point. It does succeed in producing headline-baiting effect which implies sexism in StackOverflow community.

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If the goal is to get the most and best answers, and you're not engaging all demographics, then you can get more and better answers by doing that.

It seems that there are 3 types of people answering question on StackOverflow:

1) People genuinely wishing to share their knowledge

2) People that are chasing gamified elements of the reputation system

3) People that belong somewhere between #1 & #2

I dont see anything that prevents any demographic from participating as long as fall into one of these 3 categories. And i dont see how being of a particular gender or race or ethnicity precludes one from sharing their knowledge on StackOverflow

Then you're not paying attention to the society around you. You really think women and men have equal proclivities for engaging in public competition?

>or a teapot

Whoa, let's not go overboard here.

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