It isn't just tech, for what it's worth. Before moving to straight up software dev, I was in finance and worked at a small company that had no women at all. Bef

It isn't just tech, for what it's worth. Before moving to straight up software dev, I was in finance and worked at a small company that had no women at all. Before that, I was an Army officer in the Armor branch when women were still legally barred from serving in combat roles, so no women in any of my units. I've only ever had a max of two women on a team since going into software, usually one, and that number has been zero for the past two years, but it's still more than "legally can't even apply for the job." I guess I do wonder what, if anything, it has done to my view of the world to have virtually no professional interactions with women for nearly 20 years. The other thing is even when I've had a woman or two women on my team, all but one time it has been in a management role. I've only had one woman teammate ever in a technical role. Actually, the BLS has detailed tables on this by occupation. Scroll down to construction jobs and women are virtually non-existent: https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm https://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm. Most of them are not even annotated, with cement masons being 0%. My dad was a plumber, so apparently neither of us ever worked with women.