I was initially confused about the first one. Then I realized that the author mentioned working on HR systems and it clicked. But for most of us who aren't building HR databases, I honestly think most professional programmers don't have to think about gender in their work nearly as much as this list suggests - the biggest thing I could come up with would be for localization, where some strings may need to be tweaked for the gender of people or inanimate objects.
I was initially confused about the first one. Then I realized that the author mentioned working on HR systems and it clicked. But for most of us who aren't building HR databases, I honestly think most professional programmers don't have to think about gender in their work nearly as much as this list suggests - the biggest thing I could come up with would be for localization, where some strings may need to be tweaked for the gender of people or inanimate objects.