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One is a general admission of gender preferences and their consequences.

The pipeline issue is caused, in every industry and not just tech, by either a mismatch of people's preferences and the working conditions of a job, or by the way the working conditions of a job are structured. As an example of a change over time that flips gender indifferences, men dominated Veterinarian roles while it was about livestock and birthing cows, but women now dominate (80%+) when it has become much more about cute little suburban pugs and kittens.

Damore's memo - which I'm gonna assume everyone knows - made the generally accepted statement that women prefer people over things AND he offered a (rarely discussed) solution: a larger emphasis on peer programming.

I think that sounds, in theory, like a very reasonable approach to the pipleline problem. If the standard mental model for programming changed from the Richard Hendrix sitting all alone in a dark, locked room belting out the code for Pied Piper "middle out" encryption in techo blaring headphones, to peer coding with human interaction at its core, that would be far more attractive to those with a people vs things preference.