> We have to accept they may just not want the gig. If this is true it's probably because the community isn't very friendly or welcoming to women like the post

> We have to accept they may just not want the gig. If this is true it's probably because the community isn't very friendly or welcoming to women like the poster said… That being said, I don't think this is true. My only evidence is anecdotal, but at a previous company when we tried to recruit at events that weren't primarily male dominated, we got roughly equal percentages of responses from people who identified as female or male. > Just like most men don't go into pre-school teaching. Let's assume for a moment these statements are correct: you're not starting from the right place. Why don't most women want the software job? Why don't most men want to teach pre-school? It could be because they've been raised in a society that says that the burden of child rearing should be placed on the women and that pre-school isn't a "manly" profession. Just because people don't want the job doesn't make it less discriminatory against women somehow, it just means the reasons are likely ingrained and harder to fix.