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I don't mean this to sound overly harsh, but I think treating this situation as some sort of mystery is part of the problem.

All that one really needs to do to understand why the field is unwelcoming to women is to start listening to women.

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During the Cold War, if one showed up in one of the weedout classes for EE, you got the "look to your left & right. One of you will not survive this process" lecture. EE was very seriously a defense discipline and the values-pyramid was feeding bodies into the Military Industrial Complex.

I imagine that is part of it.

The exodus of women from computing began in the 80s due to the rise of the personal computer. It wasn't because people weren't listening to women.

Trivialization of women's issues is a different monster.

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