Can't speak for the parent but for me the actual supposition that "women just aren't interested in tech" itself isn't farcical, but the epistemological basis fo

Can't speak for the parent but for me the actual supposition that "women just aren't interested in tech" itself isn't farcical, but the epistemological basis for making that claim in this day and age absolutely is. You can take all the surveys you want of billions of people but until you have a deep understanding of the sociological and psychological landscape you can't demonstrate that womens' collective "disinterest" in tech is anything but a facade resulting from some unknown variable or an out of control feedback loop (i.e., what if the impact of a girl seeing a 2:1 ratio of men to women in her favorite field leads to a death spiral where it ends up being 9:1 despite equal interest?)