Sure, like there's overwhelming institutional bias against women in medicine... oh, wait. Err... Like there's overwhelming institutional bias against women in l

Sure, like there's overwhelming institutional bias against women in medicine... oh, wait. Err... Like there's overwhelming institutional bias against women in law... Um... Well, like there's overwhelming institutional bias against women in polit... Hmm... The credibility of the claim that there's overwhelming institutional bias against women is dependent on understanding why in cases where there unquestionably was considerable bias--like medicine, law and politics--the bias has either dropped dramatically or been reversed in the past half-century to the point where no one anywhere is the least bit surprised to see a female doctor, lawyer, or politician. The absence of women in tech may be due to many factors. Given we have seen how easily bias has been overcome in other areas, we should at least keep our minds open to alternative models. One such model is the observation that women remain under-represented in areas where the working conditions are terrible, the career prospects are nil, and the tangible effect of their efforts on others are zero, all of which conditions pertain to tech, but not to medicine, law or politics. This suggests that maybe we ought to be paying attention to the conditions men work under in tech, rather than making this out to be a man-woman thing. I'm not claiming this is necessarily true, but nor do I think it is entirely implausible, and hope people concerned with these things will at least be open to alternative explanations.