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Re:Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth ... by oh_sigh on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:36PM (#19976250)
My problem with 'women programmers' is it sounds weird and is probably ungrammatical(female is both a noun and an adjective - women is just a noun, and it is used as an adjective in the title), not that they specify the sex of people they are writing about when their sex had a big effect on what they could contribute.

And maybe it would be good if some people who jumped to 'two men programmers' (doesn't that sound weird?) automatically instead read the article and found out they were women?

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Re:Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth ... by thehogrammer on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @07:56PM (#19976360)
Ok so your beef is with the grammar, cool. "two programmers who identify as female" there ya go
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Re:Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth ... by zapzupnz on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @08:02PM (#19976403)
It goes from grammatically awkward to semantically awkward. I think OP/GP's point is that it's very odd that we go through hoops to avoid the clearest articulation of the point: "two female programmers".
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Re:Two women programmers played a pivotal role in the birth ... by oh_sigh on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @03:55PM (#19984832)
Perhaps we could just say 'two female programmers'
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