What Is Gender Inequality?

In what ways has gender inequality affected scientific research (specifically computer science)?

• It has been shown that there are benefits to having gender equality in a company (more diversity prevents 'group think', increases creativity) and in education (countries with gender inequality in education have slightly lower economic growth); in what ways has gender inequality affected scientific research, and specifically computer science?

• Answer:

  A great example are the first speech recognition systems. They demonstrated impressive results. The problem? They worked only for men's voices. This is a good example how a lack of diversity can jeopardize the usefulness of research or a product by excluding a significant portion of the population, 50% in this case.