Dude, it’s the biases and actions of people like you who’ve made tech an unwelcoming place for women since about the time you were born. The women I worked with and for in the 1980s were every bit the equal of the men, whether designing hardware, writing software, managing, doing program management, or any of the other roles it takes a company to work well. It took almost a decade to figure out that there were men, quietly and behind the scenes, making work life harder for the women on our teams.
Let’s be blunt about what happened as a result. When my son got to law school, his class had more women than men. Practicing law, he works for a woman, who works for another woman, and a lot of his peers are women. And although the detail skills are different, researching a squirrely area of law isn’t that different from chasing something through dozens of modules of an operating system (or these days through layers of microservices). Both are just code. Yes, I just said we made tech so inhospitable for women that a lot of them are choosing other professions. Same, by the way, is true of medicine. So good luck with your attitude the next time you need your life saved in the emergency room, or your ass saved from a legal problem you’ve gotten yourself into.
