Ah yes, the "club". I would argue not tech more than most. Never in history has a club so provided all the information needed to participate so freely and openly. So it's not about exclusion in that way.

My wife and I talk about this a bit, one idea that comes up is that if there is disenfranchised group of equal or superior talent (eg in this case women) then there is also a strong opportunity to form a competing "club" - if you can't join em, beat em.