Like women are not smart enough to decide for themselves what they want to do. They need some nerd to tell them that they should be spending their working lives

Like women are not smart enough to decide for themselves what they want to do. They need some nerd to tell them that they should be spending their working lives programming software for some big corp. ---------- I studied math and physics at uni and met many smart women, many smarter than me. And some of those went on to be programmers and literally all of them (sample size around 15), moved on from programming very soon after. And all gave the same reason: they just do not like programming all day and want to have more interaction with people as part of their job/career. Many are still in tech, but not as programmers. These women came back to give recruiting speeches at the uni where I now work, so this is their official word on the matter. I personally would really like to have more women in tech, because frankly the sausage fest gets tiring. But at the same time, I find the whole idea of trying to force a gender to do something they seemingly do not want to do, quite bizarre. Hospitals have no problem recruiting female surgeons, nor law firms recruiting female lawyers. Programming is the new accounting. It is a very boring job for people who lack social skills. Women do not like that because they tend to have better social skills than us men, and they want to use them. In particular they want to leverage their social skills to advance their careers, something that as a programmer, does not come into play as much as for example being in sales or being a project manager.