[sleepysysadmin]

>I sometimes wonder if the problem isn't exactly the opposite of what people think they are. Women are underrepresented in tech because they get more support, not less. More choices, and they get pushed to go for the truly glamorous choices.

This is actually an interesting point and I haven't been able to find information about it.

Lets say we have X amount of women who are going into STEM... but say for example I used to live in the Detroit area. The universities at the time I was about to head into post-secondary were offering 'scholarships' where women who took their first year in engineering, would get the rest of their education for free and most of the engineering credits would act as wildcard credits toward any other degree if they chose to switch.

So perhaps we lack women in IT because they went to engineering instead?