[a3voices]

I think more men are successful at tech because more enter the field. At my university, which was actually 56% female (IIRC), my electrical engineering classes almost entirely consisted of males.

[prutschman]

I think it's worth looking at why more men enter the field.

I think it's also worth looking at why the participation of women in computer science in particular, as opposed to other technical fields, decreased on a relative basis after initial increases.[1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16digi.html?_r=0

[a3voices]

I'd wager that it's a variety of factors that are mostly cultural.

[cliveb]

It is. Here’s the science of why by Heidi Grant Halvorson PhD citing research by Carol Dweck PhD. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-success/2011...