I wish more women were competent and excited by developing tech... many decades into this field and its largely a sausage fest... I have met and worked with many competent and capable women, but they are by far the vast minority, and it isn’t because the industry is rude or sexist to them, at least in my experience, its that most choose other fields to pursue.
“sausage fest”
That is especially true about software. I am convinced that one day soon, a software bug is going to cause a lot of money to disappear, or a lot of people to get killed, or both. The question “How is software made?” will be asked at very high levels. The answer will not be flattering to the industry.
Personal observation plus politics:
* Most women don’t want to do “overwork”, the general over-time and long weekends at work. Hence more women having the ideal life of working part time and a percentage of women wanting to be stay at home spouses even without kids.
* IT and STEM in general is known for demanding long hours. This discourages women.
* For the few women who have been in engineering and IT like myself, when you have kids and the constraints that come with them, you either leave STEM, try to move to management or quit altogether.
These things are not sexism but sex based differences. But liberals assume ALL differences between demographic groups are only systemic oppression because they assume if the culture is totally egalitarian, we’d all be exactly the same.
Scary to think their ideal is the Borg, you will all be interchangeably the same ...