The NYTimes article falsely claims that there was "a moment when women began to be forced out of programming" when in fact the absolute number of women kept inc

The NYTimes article falsely claims that there was "a moment when women began to be forced out of programming" when in fact the absolute number of women kept increasing (in the 80's/90's). The percentage dropped because of vastly higher numbers of men, for reasons the article described. When I was a student (2004-2007) there was a huge contingent of males that played video games, watched anime, wanted to make video games, and badly needed haircuts, and spent all their time on computers, thus majored in CS. (Especially at my 3:1 ratio engineering school.) I don't think there was a big female version of that demographic.