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Considering women make up >50% of college graduates, for every profession that has more men there are more profession that have more women (or a greater imbalance).

How about:

People are capable of choosing professions they like. Respect their choices and don't second guess them.

That doesn't account for the cultural pressure on girls throughout childhood to be princesses, like pink things and cooking and babies and ponies, while boys are supposed to like computers and engineering and guns.

We're still preparing girls to stay home, cook dinner and have babies while the men go out and earn the money.

“Gender-Differentiated Parenting Revisited: Meta-Analysis Reveals Very Few Differences in Parental Control of Boys and Girls”

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

This nonsense is being propagated by idiots. Nobody is now forcing dolls on girls and guns on boys. The aggression in men is built by evolution. Again, we only talk in averages. There are idiots again who point to aggressive females to try to make me sound sexist.

That doesn't account for choice of degree.

There are diversity efforts in the fields of teaching and nursing to hire more women, as the dominance of women in those fields in harmful in much the same way that the dominance of men in software engineering is harmful. Teaching especially needs more men, most especially at the elementary school level, as many children are not exposed to many positive male role models.

An important factor here is that software engineering is a highly desired and highly compensated field, which aren't true of nursing and teaching. Having an imbalance of gender in software engineering thus contributes to inequality in social status and compensation in a way that imbalances in female-dominated fields do not.

The right way for women to do that is developing interest in the field and being good at it and working hard. Thats how women/men got into fields they respectively dominate now. Not by forcing affirmative action and shaming.