So engineering is different both from science and from actuaries (a math-intensive field with much better gender parity than computer technology), and from all the other lucrative professions.

The pleading here seems to me to get more and more special with each iteration of the argument.

Yeah engineering is different from science. There's a reason people came up with a whole different word for it.

> a math-intensive field with much better gender parity than computer technology

Stop saying this. It's not better, it's different.

> The pleading here seems to me to get more and more special with each iteration of the argument.

It's not special. Look at the tables, practically all engineering professions are 80ish% male. If you want to damn computer programming as discriminatory just because lots of women take Maths for their GCSEs, are 35% of chemists and 50% of biologists, you have to do the same for ALL engineers.

Ok? And? It's also problematic that so few men working in nursing. What's your point?

> It's also problematic that so few men working in nursing.

I don't agree that it is, necessarily. But you're working from the premise that it is inherently discriminatory.

They're not the same. So, yes, they're different.

> The pleading here seems to me to get more and more special with each iteration of the argument.

Really? Because you ignored what the parent comment said. I.e. special pleading!