I remember back in the late 80s / early 90s that all the wise gurus were predicting that computer programming was going to be the big thing that finally brought females into science careers in numbers rivaling males. It didn’t. There are plenty of female programmers, outstanding ones in fact, but it’s still a field dominated by men in my experience. Perhaps the predictions of the wise men of those bygone decades are finally starting to come true. Time will tell.
My experience matches, a field dominated by men. The women didn't want to get their hands dirty. Not true of all; I've worked alongside a few women who didn't mind crawling thru dirty tunnels to string cabling between buildings, or lift heavy servers into data racks. I knew a couple women who were outstanding on troubleshooting mainframe problems. But many are weak in logic skills. It bugged me to see women brought into a job that couldn't hack it, asking me to cover for them or do what they were supposed to know. Equal pay for equal work, but shouldn't be paid for not doing the work that men do.