Some quick research on this suggests that the average college graduate in engineering (which is programmer material, at least programmer material for companies

Some quick research on this suggests that the average college graduate in engineering (which is programmer material, at least programmer material for companies like Google) is around 130. Sources like [0]. Therefore it is not unreasonable to deduce that people who work as programmers in prestige companies are, on the average, from the very right-hand tail ends of the normal distribution curve, and the differences of men and women (on the average, again) are significant enough to cause an over-representation of men among this group. The same thing that causes an over-representation of men among homeless alcoholics at the left-hand-side end of the normal distribution. [0] https://qz.com/334926/your-college-major-is-a-pretty-good-indication-of-how-smart-you-are/ https://qz.com/334926/your-college-major-is-a-pretty-good-in...