> Or what about accounting and book keeping; which is a professional, white collar career that also happens to employ more women than men? That's the differenc

> Or what about accounting and book keeping; which is a professional, white collar career that also happens to employ more women than men? That's the difference though. Accounting is professional. Software engineering is often not. Moreover, while accounting is often asocial (not much social interaction), many software engineers (male and female) can be downright anti-social (against common means of social interaction).