I think it does make a difference. I came from the private sector in the software industry back into academia, and I think it absolutely makes a difference. We can't be what we can't see. If we go into those software development places and participate fully in designing and developing software, why wouldn't it make a difference? Parity makes a difference everywhere in culture when we have women contributing in all kinds of ways. I think it brings a level of consciousness to the table that is based particularly on women's experience.
If you follow things like Hollaback!, you know that young women are being harassed in considerable numbers. These things are being tracked, thanks as well to big data and mapping and things. If you think about that, I think it will make a difference to bring women into that experience at that early stage of developing, just in the sense of consciousness.
If you Google “CEO” in the images on the Google search function, what do you get back? You get a sea of white male faces, and we know that our world is more diverse than that. That's the training data that was used to train that algorithm: Google Images.