‘The Innovators’ by Walter Isaacson: How Women Shaped Technology

"The exclusion of these women has not only reinforced stereotypes about women and technology, but has arguably had a self-fulfilling effect. In 1985, 37 percent of computer science undergraduate degrees were earned by women. By 2010, that number had fallen by half to 18 percent. Now just 0.4 percent of all female college freshmen say they plan to major in computer science."

So women were excluded from technology back in the day. Then - around 1985 there was a resurgence of women in IT, which puttered out and crashed today.

Listening to this narrative you'd imagine that US experienced some sort of Taliban takeover in mid-80s which prevented women from going into CS.

But if one actually considers all other available statistics, US has been getting more egalitarian (gender-wise) and women are actually outperforming men in education between mid 80s and today.

So maybe, just maybe, it's not about discrimination (overt, covert or whatever)?