A man only team is likely to miss some perspectives, which it is much more likely women will have, in the same way a female only team will miss a male perspective.

Any team is likely to miss some perspectives.

True, and trying to optimise for everything won't work, but we can try.

Can you give some examples? I find it very hard to believe, for general software products.

So what kinds of things are female programmers going to miss? What kind of roles can we decide a priori should go to a man?

Many software products don't need female specific features. There is the famous story of the Apple fitness tracker that couldn't account for menstruation cycles, but that is a rather specific example.

And that approach is doomed to fail in general, because there are too many different people. If you can only think of appropriate features by having a representative needing such a feature on your team, you'd have to hire thousands of people to work on your product.

but for sure they cannot have the perspective of a woman. And a white bro cannot have the perspective of an Indian or a Chinese or a Quechua.

Asserting that white brogrammers cannot embody some perspectives doesn't say that they have a uniform background. It just asserts that your team will be made encompassing just that set of perspectives.

I've never seen rigorous scientific proof that these claims for the nebulous benefits of 'perspective' are real, outside of issues that are highly specific to a particular group - and let's be honest, we are all far more similar than we are different (highly unfashionable view, I know).

Give me an IT perspective that a man can't possibly have, but a woman can.

Give me an IT perspective that a white man can't possibly have, but an Indian/Chinese can.

Period tracking apps are often written by men and fail to be actually useful to women because they miss a bunch of stuff.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/11/13/18079458/menstrual-...

That's a pretty dumb article. For example:

>Glow was even worse. The first onboarding screen asks users to choose their “journey” and provides three choices: avoiding pregnancy, trying to conceive, and fertility treatments.

If you go to https://glowing.com/ you can see their tag line is "Modern care for your fertility". So a good chunk of the article is nothing more than complaining that Glow isn't what they want it to be.

>a white bro

Please don't do this on HN.