[sp332]

You know it's not that simple. It's not that people think of programming as a "guys' job". It's that most people never think of programming at all. It just happens that the few people who do think of programming, ever, are mostly guys. We just need to advertise better.

[bfe]

Dude. How is any of that "simple"?

Thinking that just better advertising will solve gender imbalances in technical roles is overly simple.

[ZoFreX]

That may be what caused us to get to the current situation, but the status quo being how it is has led to other problems in the meantime. Sexism is a very real problem in CS, both on academia and the professional side (sorry not really sure how else to distinguish, academics are also professionals obviously).