I think part of the situation is that almost no one gets widespread recognition until after they are dead to begin with, if that. Not even those with a massive

I think part of the situation is that almost no one gets widespread recognition until after they are dead to begin with, if that. Not even those with a massive PR campaign, plus many experimentalists do not want to divert that kind of effort away from technical progress. So this is expressing a lagging indicator of a lingering statistic. Well, electronics itself is only about a hundred years old and it started out completely male dominated and decades of development continued from that point. Mainly development of technology not diversity, and that was truly challenging. And even though male dominated from the start, it was still out of reach to almost all men too, more so for those few oportunities mostly to undertake experimental efforts. So statistically at the beginning, electronics was virtually inaccessbile for almost all men & women to a somewhat equal degree. It was just not one of the things you could certainly do no matter how much you really wanted to, you had to basically get lucky in addition to your ambition.