Your suspicion is basically correct, with regards to relative representation of women in tech in inda/eastern europe vs. the US. (and actually you might add som

Your suspicion is basically correct, with regards to relative representation of women in tech in inda/eastern europe vs. the US. (and actually you might add some East Asian cultures e.g. China and Japan to the list of more patriarchal systems with better representation (and anecdotally, middle eastern countries)). Perhaps there is even a biological reason behind the political posturing: older males tend to have daughters. Engineers marry older.