Some people consider it to be. It's something people are at least curious about. There is a claim that "not enough X" go into software, where X is women or mino

Some people consider it to be. It's something people are at least curious about. There is a claim that "not enough X" go into software, where X is women or minorities or both, for various hypothesized reasons that seem very difficult to test for. One that's particularly interesting to me and at least has some semi-plausible story is that the way personal computers were marketed in the US ended up influencing the perception of the computer as something male, even though prior to 1980 women made up a larger share of working programmers than they do today. What I would find interesting from this survey is whether the gender breakdown between specializations changes when nationality is an additional factor. Because in my own limited experience, there are plenty of women who are competent developers, but I've only known one born in the US (n=8, but I work at a small company and this is is at least a double-digit percentage of the engineering staff)