> The tech industry is male dominated. And while people's sex/gender shouldn't matter, after a while one can't help but notice. Lately I've been wondering about

> The tech industry is male dominated. And while people's sex/gender shouldn't matter, after a while one can't help but notice. Lately I've been wondering about the prominent female software engineers, programmers or startup founders that are out there and I realised that I know of none. From a personal experience, back in 2002 I have had the honor to share team projects with some great minds during my university years, all of them were incredible problem solvers. Those girls were out of our Computer Science league, so to speak; they were straight 'A's or '4's as we were graded at my uni, with incredible minds solving problems in no time, whereas the rest of the classroom would extend our deadline so we can deliver something even half-baked. I would love being around them to learn so much, how to organize a project, how to take notes, how to learn to listen, and so forth...only to see them sadly changing major before the end of the first semester...EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM! We would panic and ask them what happened, whether was someone that cause them pain or anxiety and felt threatened that had to change major. Their answer, ALL OF THEM, was the same: "this is so stressful that I cannot think of myself handling this non-stop task of meeting the deadlines every week or so, plus the mandatory task of learning new techie things every day or so! Not to mention the headaches of thinking non-stop to figure things out; as a woman I already think non-stop, but things that are important to me, not to a computer!". I still think about it and occasionally we discuss this with old co-students / friends of mine and we express our sadness for losing such great minds from the Computer Science field. I'm sure you can become the source of inspiration of other young minds that are hesitant to give it a try.