My personal observation is that tech has money, and money is power. I would bet my salary that if programmers didn't make a lot of money, there wouldn't be the

My personal observation is that tech has money, and money is power. I would bet my salary that if programmers didn't make a lot of money, there wouldn't be the spotlight on diversity in tech that there is now. Teachers unfortunately do not get paid hardly anything. In the States at least, it is a low-paying job (except in California). Which is awful. But anyway, my perspective is that tech has a combative equality/diversity climate because there is money in tech. This is also why you can meet students in CS programs who do not like to write code. Their parents have put pressure on them to go into CS because of the legendary salary potential, or they themselves think they can pull off being a programmer without writing code, or something. I believe the reason we don't see a raucous discussion about gender equality in psychology or teaching is because those industries are not seen as having high salaries or as being powerful (even though psychologists have very high salaries, and teachers are probably the most powerful people in any society). People attach a kind of mythology to tech, but not to teaching. And so if your identity is built around fighting for diversity, tech seems like a ripe target for diversification, even if -- who knows -- it ends up being much like psychology, where it simply does not capture the interest of one gender as much as the other. But nothing is black and white, of course. For example, enough men find psychology sufficiently interesting that 5% of psychologists are men. And so the question of "Why don't women pursue careers in tech?" may be just that easy: "Because a much higher percentage of men find it interesting than do women" instead of "Because there is a conspiracy (or subconscious desire) to keep women from pursuing high-earning career paths". And just a side note: I married a Swede and spend time in Sweden, and both Sweden and the US seem to have approximately similar efforts to diversify industries based on gender.