Pardon me, but what the hell does gender have with code? Present me a pure biological/medical reason why would women write better code and men worse? All this is is drawing nice little sociological circles and claiming that all women fit in this circle and men in the other - it's lame, old and generally dismissed.
And taking examples doesn't count - I have about 18 females in my college group: 1 writes completely garbled code (her code ended up being an example how NOT to write code; she defined obfuscation), 1 grasped the concepts but writes lines of over 300 characters (wrapping and line breaks seem to irritate her), 2 write crappy but well formatted code, and the rest write the standard two-tabs-max readable code with little comments. On the other side, there's about 16 men in the group (myself not included): 1 writes completely bloated code with tons of useless variables but formats it quite nicely, 2 write obfuscated code and the rest write regular (as advised, nice formatting, readable).
Not to exclude me, I write code as my tutor says or as the language author (or a very influential programmer in that language) advises.
Btw, you know 90% of statistics are wrong?
