>And once the personal computer became widespread with computer game culture arising and a culture of harassing women until they leave became common enough to b

>And once the personal computer became widespread with computer game culture arising and a culture of harassing women until they leave became common enough to be an issue, why wouldn’t one expect that those who developed an interest in computer programming (ie from contact with computer games, etc) to be predominantly men? (And I love computer games, but there is an insane amount of harassment. Everyone who plays knows this.) I'm sure this is a part of it, but I think you're overselling how impactful the harassment part is. The skewed ratio in CS has been something going on for decades. Online gaming, especially with voice, is the primary offender of online sexism in games. These types of games weren't that popular until early/mid 2010s. If you were interested in other types of games and largely avoided online games, sexism wasn't nearly as bad. That's not to mention a sizeable portion of CS graduates have no interest in games, let alone online games, as a whole. Meanwhile, this doesn't answer the gender-equality paradox. At the same time, these "less gender-equal" countries definitely don't have a shortage of misogynist messages on their online boards, gaming communities, forums, etc. Still as misogynist, but more women entering CS: what gives?