Coding has become, relativity recently, high status - so people now care about gender ratios, more so than they do in the fields like carpentry or car mechanics

Coding has become, relativity recently, high status - so people now care about gender ratios, more so than they do in the fields like carpentry or car mechanics. People are so quick to create vast, economically counterproductive misogynistic conspiracies when there's likely a simpler explanation. Perhaps women are just less likely to enjoy coding. Is this necessarily a bad thing so long as those who do aren't treated differently from men of similar skill level? There are already huge economic incentives for companies to not discriminate against highly skilled coders on any criteria other than ability. Even if you grant that there is a vast misogynistic conspiracy, it must be highly unstable, because any company that defects from the conspiracy will have access to cheap high-level talent.