This has been covered ad infinitum by HN flamewars and is eternally off-topic. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13261688 and the links there.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13260599 and marked it off-topic.

The teaching and nursing industries both talk about gender imbalance in their own industry communication channels. The fact that tech receives all the attention in tech-oriented news outlets should be no surprise.

TC rarely covers non-tech fields unless there's a tech aspect.

Plus, we're talking about TC.

> Why is this gender imbalance receiving all of the attention, as opposed to teaching and nursing, both of which are heavily skewed towards the opposite gender imbalance?

It isn't, they are, and have been for many years. Maybe you should read more nursing or teaching sites?