The contrast of a photo of a face affects whether we see it as male or female, with more contrasty faces being female. However, making male faces have less contrast or female faces have more contrast makes them less attractive.

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For those interested in programming practices or gender in CS, the August 2006 volume of Communications of the ACM has a must-read article on pair programming in universities with focus on women in CS. While some of the effects of pair programming for women were considered not statistically significant due to too few subjects, the results are ( Read more... )