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> including a greater demographic spread "can only lead to a wider variety of ideas in the memepool" seems self-evident

Men are interchangeable? Women are capable of thoughts men aren't? Every rationale for such a statement I've come up with is appalling.

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There are certainly some experiences in life that are unique to each gender. I don't know how much this would affect development though...

The set of all men plus all women is greater than the set of all men. If you find that concept appalling, more power to you.

A larger set to recruit from is merely an easier way to find more developers total, unless there's some reason more women would be valuable but more men would be useless.

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