Perhaps gaming has something to do with this? Leaving aside whether there is something 'male' about gaming and the specific games that are most common, I recall

Perhaps gaming has something to do with this? Leaving aside whether there is something 'male' about gaming and the specific games that are most common, I recall that in my youth gaming was a 'guy thing'. I can imagine that frequently interacting with a computer in the form of gaming easily leads to becoming a programmer or tech worker.