The earliest airbags that graced the automobiles of the American auto-industry ended up contradicting their purpose of saving lives when they wound up killing many women and children. The reason? The all-male teams of engineers that worked on the devices had failed to account for the smaller frames of over half of the population.
It’s apparent that problems can easily arise when something needs to be developed for an entire population, but only a small segment of that population is put in charge of addressing that issue.