I don't believe that was point of the article based on the first paragraph "An online start-up (tech) was crowdfunding a shipment of single women from New York to San Francisco".

Is that a requirement for every article? I'm sure a lot of articles don't help to encourage girls in technology, even those that include mentions of women and technology. It just wasn't the point.

Girls/women in technology is a totally separate issue. If the issue is with the women that flew to SF, then I think that there are a lot of different kinds of people and archetypes - these people's existence shouldn't discourage other people with different inclinations and/or ambitions. There isn't, or shouldn't be "one role model to rule them all".

If the issue is with the men that they met, then I guess women in technology shouldn't date them if those kinds of men put them off? Romance and work is separate, at least if you want it to be.

Really no one thinks "I got shipped to California to date tech guys" affects women's view of the male dominated tech industry in a negative way? Weird.