> Women outnumber men as graduates, in medicine, in law. What is the difference between those fields and IT? This is probably not the answer anyone wants... bu

> Women outnumber men as graduates, in medicine, in law. What is the difference between those fields and IT? This is probably not the answer anyone wants... but in medicine and law, you need a university diploma, or it is illegal to do the job. So you can simply set quotas at schools, and thus shape the future workforce. In IT, many people do not have formal education. So even if you would set 50% (or even 100%) quotas at schools, it wouldn't necessarily achieve the same change at workplace. I suppose people are aware of it, so they don't even try this way. If you want to fix gender ratio in IT using the same strategy, the first step would be to make it illegal for people without diploma to program computers. Then you can restrict the number of men at workplace by limiting the diplomas. Of course, if you would want to fix gender ratio in IT using a different strategy, you could e.g. listen to Damore and make overtime illegal, perhaps require companies to provide part-time jobs, and otherwise remove things that women actually try to avoid.