I appreciate the ambiguity of your reply because I was expecting it to be “It’s not like that, we do hire women” — but instead got: “It’s not like that, we do hire metalheads.”
I do get your point, but are you under the presumption there are no women metalheads?
Being a woman who attends metal concerts, the scene in the USA is 90% guys. It's significantly more gender-skewed than programming is