Having said that, nobody is claiming that women oil rig workers are better qualified to produce gasoline for women, whilst that is the claim the article makes about women developers. So your question isn't really apropos.
Having said that, nobody is claiming that women oil rig workers are better qualified to produce gasoline for women, whilst that is the claim the article makes about women developers. So your question isn't really apropos.
If you were to argue that female game designers, product managers, producers and writers are better qualified to make games for women, female marketers are better at marketing to that demographic, sure, I can absolutely buy that argument.
However the gender imbalance people always focus on is the one for individual contributors and programmers, not marketers, not designers, nor people doing the higher level product or creative work.
If diversity really makes a difference when it comes to writing machine instructions, diversity should matter for mechanics, miners and oil rig workers.