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.