[nycticorax]

That's an interesting point, but it's orthogonal to whether PG was being disingenuous in "What I Didn't Say".

And I'm not campaigning to push money in any direction. That's a separate issue.

I agree that it's not obviously a bad thing if all these people who didn't become hackers (female or male) became something else that is socially valuable and makes them happy. But I'm also willing to consider the possibility that some women would have been happier and contributed more to society if they had become hackers, but didn't because they felt out of place or unwelcome when they tried to. And that if that's the case, then I'm at least willing to consider that maybe we as a society should do something about it.