Yes. But to a large part that's because it is specifically presented as such.

For example, the graph in the episode looks very damning. However, it is an extract, arguably in order for it to look as damning as possible. Here's a more complete version of the same:

http://www.randalolson.com/wp-content/uploads/percent-bachel...

Hmm...now it's not nearly as lopsided as that extract. First, there are all these subjects that are at least as and actually even more lopsided than CS, and dominated by women. In fact, more fields are dominated by women than by men (which has to be the case because there are more women in universities). But that doesn't fit the narrative, so out they go.

And of course the CS curve approaches the general engineering curve. Hmmm...maybe that's because CS is a lot like general engineering. So maybe the outlier is not the end of that curve (where CS approaches engineering), but the beginning of the curve?

http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...

> Rather, managers hired women because they expected programming to be a low-skill clerical function, akin to filing, typing, or telephone switching. Assuming that the real “brain work” in electronic computing would be limited to the hardware side, managers reserved these tasks for male engineers.