I still laugh at the argument that there are fewer women in tech because computers were marketed as a toy for boys. The thing is: when I started with the comput

I still laugh at the argument that there are fewer women in tech because computers were marketed as a toy for boys. The thing is: when I started with the computers (some thirty years ago) almost nobody had them at home in my country, and they sure were not advertised as any kind of toy for anyone. Actually, back then even the concept of advertising was new to us. Yet the computers at the university computer labs were all occupied by guys. Interestingly enough my computer science teacher at the school was a woman. I am grateful to her, because she tught me to program without even having access to computer (the course was about basics: variables, algorithms, control flow, etc. By the time I was able to access the computer all I needed was syntax for that particular language). My computer science teacher in the university was also a woman. And one of the best known computer science educator in my country, author of many books was also a woman. And nobody thought that was somehow peculiar or strange. My degree was in hard science (BS in chemistry and physics, then MS in physics and astronomy). I think the had about an equal split between men and women as our professors. Once again, nobody thought twice about that. But it was still exclusively guys spending their free time in the computer labs.