Its the tools, stupid. We're an arts and crafts "industry". Only a fraction of our time is spent thinking about the problem in the abstract. A great deal of

Its the tools, stupid. We're an arts and crafts "industry". Only a fraction of our time is spent thinking about the problem in the abstract. A great deal of it is spent wrestling with our primitive tool kit to realize the concept. When programming becomes entirely an intellectual field, you will see the same gender ratios as you see in other mature sciences.