Well, when I started as a professional programmer in 1983, I was hired by a woman. A year or two later, my boss, my boss's boss, and her boss were all women (th

Well, when I started as a professional programmer in 1983, I was hired by a woman. A year or two later, my boss, my boss's boss, and her boss were all women (this was in software development at a Fortune 500 computer manufacturing company). My understanding is that today, there are far fewer women in software development than there were in the 1980s. It seems to me that the billions of dollars in toy marketing (and other factors) are beating the millions in "STEM for girls".