You suggest that we can use heuristics based on a woman's appearance and whether she's talking with other women to determine whether she is knowledgable about the product. This is something that people do already do. It is called stereotyping.
As someone who has more in common physically with a booth babe than with our culture's stereotype of an OS developer, the use of these heuristics is quite depressing and alienating. What people expect from me based on their stereotypes and my outer appearance is extremely different from my inner sense of self.
You suggest that we can use
You suggest that we can use heuristics based on a woman's appearance and whether she's talking with other women to determine whether she is knowledgable about the product. This is something that people do already do. It is called stereotyping.
As someone who has more in common physically with a booth babe than with our culture's stereotype of an OS developer, the use of these heuristics is quite depressing and alienating. What people expect from me based on their stereotypes and my outer appearance is extremely different from my inner sense of self.