While there's still a lot of stigma about men in some women related fields (ask male nurses), the issue in software is of larger scale than you imply. Try 1 fe

While there's still a lot of stigma about men in some women related fields (ask male nurses), the issue in software is of larger scale than you imply. Try 1 female for 40 male programmers (That's about the ratio in both my internships, as well as my Software Engineering bachelor's degree group) and add to that the wannabe cool guys making sexist jokes in their public announcements and you might be closer to the current situation.