No, female developers is an accurate term. There is nothing wrong with the word. You don't say women developers. And since it is fine in this scenario it is also fine in that scenario. You are creating a problem out of nothing here.
Edit: Also woman is not inclusive, since it excludes kids. You wouldn't say that women toddlers. Using female and male are the only terms you can use when you are talking about the groups as a whole. Attacking people for using them just makes it impossible to correctly use the language.
Forcing people to add age qualifiers whenever they talk about gender seems insane though. And while it is uncommon for kids to get higher degrees it still happens.
I think the reason this word choice is divisive is that male/female refer to biological sex, whereas man/woman refer to gender roles. A large segment of society recognizes that gender is something people are free to choose.
Parent comment was responding to a comment that used the term "male." Responding with equivalent phrasing and saying "female" in that context makes a lot more sense.
It is not surprising people react poorly to other people trying to police their natural language based on assumptions projected onto them about it.
Male/female to describe individual or cohorts of humans based on sex is pretty common language. It certainly isn't "fundamentally" wrong. It's just a higher abstraction. You have to infer the form of being from the context - usually very easy.
The rest of this article is just an author's assertions about how these words are used.
