Why women are leaving the tech industry in droves

I think it has to do with the youth of tech as an industry. I'm 25, and I still very well remember the days when if you wanted to work on a computer, a screwdriver was required. They were heavy, too! Heavy enough that a ~3rd grader would have serious trouble carting them around, especially up the stairs.

You can fit all the computing power you need into a messenger bag today, but that wasn't always the case.

The women entering/leaving the tech industry today are still almost unanimously of the age where they were deterred not by the constraints of programming and computer knowledge, but of the more traditionally male-oriented tasks like screwing pieces of metal together and lifting heavy stuff. 2 decades ago, it was less cool for girls to get dirty with that kind of thing.

Of course there are the same kind of systemic problems that plague the culture as a whole, but I think the problem was exacerbated by the fact that hardware free, strictly knowledge based computer work is only now becoming the norm.

Hardware is becoming less stigmatized for women (albeit slower than programming), and it's also becoming less necessary, so my hope is that things only improve from here.

Because women are smart and weak, and I don't mean that in a negative way. Women's evolutionary history over time was to find a strong man who has resources, hence women's evolutionary programming isn't geared for technological trenches of insane work hours and dedication of 20 something youths.

Women have an ovulatory cycle, and the enlightenment was wrong about human reasoning and human functioning. Most of our surface behaviour is controlled by unconscious processes.

See here about reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYmi0DLzBdQ