Twenty years ago women were almost half of law students and rising. Lawyers knew that time alone would dissolve lack of diversity. And the diversity had arrived

Twenty years ago women were almost half of law students and rising. Lawyers knew that time alone would dissolve lack of diversity. And the diversity had arrived in the face of extreme open bias against women by incumbent lawyers from an age where that bias was expected; older lawyers didn't even have to quit open discrimination to bring women into the field. It was a comfortable thing to worry about since it solved itself. Women form a much smaller proportion of computer science students and it's shrinking every generation. And we're a generation further on from any kind of real organized social pressure against professional women in general while the field gets less and less diverse. So it's a lot more uncomfortable for programmers than it ever was for lawyers.