I'm really skeptical of this. Women as a percentage of the workforce in general isn't low, and just as some fields seem to attract a lot of men, some fields att

I'm really skeptical of this. Women as a percentage of the workforce in general isn't low, and just as some fields seem to attract a lot of men, some fields attract a lot of women. Even if you believe that societal pressure is part of this, that still means that by the time you're talking about "who applies to companies for X jobs" there's self-selection at play.