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While there's still a lot of stigma about men in some women related fields (ask male nurses), the issue in software is of larger scale than you imply.

Try 1 female for 40 male programmers (That's about the ratio in both my internships, as well as my Software Engineering bachelor's degree group) and add to that the wannabe cool guys making sexist jokes in their public announcements and you might be closer to the current situation.

They do complain about it, they just don't do it on Hacker News! My wife teaches preschool at Stanford's Laboratory School and they often talk about the teacher gender gap and what they can do about it, especially at young-children education conferences and the like.

I think it's because men working in female dominated industries don't think of it as an injustice that requires an organised social movement to set right. They do what they want to do and just don't give a monkey's. Much like all the female programmers I know.

It's just the blog-people I ever hear raising this issue.

> no one is complaining about low presence of men in female-dominated industries.

Do you actually know that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baSyYyqV2X0