And, yet, look who are in leadership roles even in those female dominated industries. Somehow, the majority of the wealthy fashion designers are white men. Somehow, the majority of principals in elementary education are white men. The executives that nurses answer to? Once again, predominantly white men.

There's a useful discussion to be had about why more boys or girls don't go into certain fields...and, feminists have been having those conversations for many years (yes, talking about the boys, too, because it often comes down to the same core problem). And, it's too complicated to sum up with statistics about who goes into what industry. But, there are a variety of real problems that come from these imbalances and these inequalities, so it's useful to try to sort them out and figure out root causes, without simplifying it down to gender essentialist arguments (i.e. that "women go into caregiver fields because women like that sort of thing" and "boys are big and tough and like machines so they go into STEM fields and shoot guns").

Finally, to pretend our industry is not overtly hostile to women is to ignore thousands of women who have told their stories of being made to feel unwelcome, disrespected, and even harassed and abused, because of their gender, when working in technical fields.