Putative sexist deleted his comment , so I ' m kinda interpolating what it said hereSure , not bothering to go any deeper is excusable . On the other hand , where does the assumption even come from that she didn ' t write any of it ? If the picture was of a dude next to a stack of code , people would bring up that probably other people helped , that it might contain data , and so on , but no one would question whether he actually contributed . Pic of a chick probably didn ' t help . Many people are nowadays accepting of women in men ' s domains , at least after they ' ve proven their competence . While it ' s certainly a step forward , men still don ' t have to go through that vetting process . New guy on the team ? Welcome to our company , lemme know if you need anything . New chick on the team ? Let ' s see if she ' s worth her salt . I ' m generalising , of course , and all that yadda yadda