"Software engineers are low status" is a thing I've seen start to pop up a lot more recently, the reasoning seems to be, basically, 'field's full of nerds and s

"Software engineers are low status" is a thing I've seen start to pop up a lot more recently, the reasoning seems to be, basically, 'field's full of nerds and society is run by jocks', and is often used as an apology for why women don't go into computer science.