If half of all potentials self select out then you end up with an inferior end result. Humanity is worse off if we miss out on potentially half of what might be the best hope simply deciding (or being forced) not to participate. This is just as true for fighter pilots as it is for nurses as it is for programmers.

Many disciplines, (tech more so than most) have cultures of exclusion. Apprenticeships, unions, country club boardrooms and brogramming are all forms of it. When you create these real or psychological barriers to entry ... See above.

You might not like programming and perhaps you should reconsider it as a career for yourself if you find it so terrible. It seems rather petty though to suggest that since you don't like it (particularly as a man) that women in general should not like it.

Tech tends to pay outrageous salaries. Even if the work is objectively crappy, should everyone not have an equal opportunity to get the big bucks?