Your comment ironically reveals why we need to have stories like this.
"The key difference is that most of tech news is about a group of 10 people who happen to be men...."
It's not a group of 10 people who happen to be men. It's more like 8 or 9 of them happen to be men and 1 of them happens to be a woman. If the community keeps perceiving and portraying itself as so homogeneous, how will young women recognize that they can have a place here too?
"The key difference is that most of tech news is about a group of 10 people who happen to be men...."
It's not a group of 10 people who happen to be men. It's more like 8 or 9 of them happen to be men and 1 of them happens to be a woman. If the community keeps perceiving and portraying itself as so homogeneous, how will young women recognize that they can have a place here too?