As a woman in tech, and in CyberSecurity specifically, there’s also a very particular challenge for women: because we’re good at the soft stuff, we’re not perceived as technical, or worse, we’re not “technical enough.” Maybe women are less willing to “fake it” so we’re seen as “not technically capable,” when really we are capable, we’re also very pragmatic/realistic/cautious. :D

I’m also not convinced that there’s too much tech talk, I feel it’s more the refusal to slow down and explain/include someone in the conversation at the early stages. There also tends to be a hyperfocus on the technology or cool new widget, rather than how it fits into a landscape, environment or toolkit. Perhaps men learn piecemeal, tool by tool then how to use them, while women learn big picture, then break it down. Most university programs favor the prior, and not the latter, in my experience, so I think that loses a lot of female interest, as well.