It's not really an "us vs. them" thing, it's looking around the room and noticing that in a meeting of 30 people, I am the only woman. It's comforting to be reminded there are other women in the field during those times.
i never understand these articles about "male dominated" tech culture with gender barriers, granted I sort of take the approach of welcoming people who are statistically more likely to be socially functional per unit of intelligence above the mean.<p>Is the issue at the hear of the matter just that women are more likely to interpret an environment where there are many irrelevant differences with respect to the population in question as being an adversarial "us vs them" dynamic?<p>I do think that the whole bit about not being able to talk about fashion at the end also detracts from the article as a whole. Any thoughts?