Programmers have much lower social status than the Professions. Programming has poor job security, entails long hours if you want to make decent money, and ofte

Programmers have much lower social status than the Professions. Programming has poor job security, entails long hours if you want to make decent money, and often requires you to work with socially inept peers. The higher status that programming gets, the more women I expect to enter the field. Not less.