Women did a great deal of coding after that as well, they didn't disappear it just added a lot of boys who wanted to program their own games. If you look at th

Women did a great deal of coding after that as well, they didn't disappear it just added a lot of boys who wanted to program their own games. If you look at the absolute numbers graph that is obvious, women continued the same path it already had, men had a massive spike with the growth of home gaming. And that is still true today, extremely few girls dream of making their own games even though many of them play games and many games are marketed to women.