Yeah, no. I'm a "woman in tech" who worked as a dev for a decade, now my focus is on user experience. You don't really have any idea what you are talking about. From early on girls are pushed away from the interests that commonly lead to a love of engineering and computer science.

I definitely find the 20 something females have had that experience less. I'm not even 40 though, and I had to struggle for acceptance amongst my peers as a teen and in my 20s. I took constant abuse from other nerds for being a female nerd, told that basically as a girl I was a failure, weird, even disgusting and wrong.

I was a genius at math as a kid, I remember internalizing the shock, surprise and disbelief that was the constant reaction when people found out because "girl". My mother was accused more than once of somehow faking my abilities.

The vast majority of jobs I have had, I've been the only woman on the dev team and while everyone else would start with everyone having the assumption they were competent that they could then disprove by being lazy, I was treated by my peers as incompetent until I proved over and over again that I knew what I was doing. Any mistake was a reflection on how "girls" do code, not just a mistake by me.

I could go on about my experience and how out of touch with reality you are with the female experience in this industry, but I guess since I'm over 30 my views will be dismissed as "archaic". What you don't seem to realize is that the 20 somethings are the bottom tier. Their dev leads are my age, their bosses are even older. The people with the money and the hiring decisions? Boomers, and they grew up in a very different world than you. One where the women had to fight just to wear pants to school, or for spousal rape to be accepted as actual rape.

You are naive to think we have come so far that women are not being affected by sexist attitudes still, and that for countless generations they have been groomed from birth into caregiver, helper etc. roles.

Shrug your shoulders. Call us old and out of touch. Pretend it's all better and that women just don't want power or control in society etc. but you are fooling yourself.