Well, in my company it worked different way. Being female, even average looking one was an instant advantage (with the exception for overweight/obese ones). Seven times of ten female would be hired over equally qualified male (which doesn't mean our company is predominately female, there's simply not that many women in the IT, so they are small minority of the candidates).

Simply put: it seems that our teams preferred to have at least one female member, just to keep things interesting.