DEV Community

Discussion on: The 14 habits of highly effective developers (Part 1)

Collapse
 
ldusoswa profile image
ldusoswa

Re: Point #7 - There is an increasing number of women in our industry. I think we should try to steer clear of saying things like "the next guy" as it's not very inclusive. Especially as women find it very difficult to progress in our industry, using the word 'guy' suggests that progression is only for men. Of course you may accuse me of reading too much into it, but i'm not in the affected minority and in the interest of a healthy inclusive community, it would be easy to change the word "guy" to "developer"

Collapse
 
pavlosisaris profile image
Paul Isaris

You are absolutely right, Idusoswa. I thought of the exact same thing when writing the post but never made the change. I updated the post now thanks to your suggestion.