It's not just the stigma that IT isn't womanly, it's the idea that a young girl... already completely dejected by her peers (read "females"), couldn't integrate

It's not just the stigma that IT isn't womanly, it's the idea that a young girl... already completely dejected by her peers (read "females"), couldn't integrate herself better in classes made up of 100% high school boys (which are her peers as much as the other girls). Unless this high school girl is incredibly hard to get along with, she will most likely make friends, males or females. I am surprised there are so few women in IT.