[Brian_K_White]

It's a fallacy to ignore that an existing bias reinforces itself and requires active counter force to change it.

There are all kinds of well understood factors that influence women to avoid many typically male populated environments that are caused by the men and not by the women's simple innate disinterest in the topic.

They are voluntarily choosing to avoid being abused and insulted and disrespected, not voluntarily choosing not to be engineers or competitive gamers or whatever.