These dudes exists in Europe too. Rendering whole meritocracy argument moot. I have come to believe that the real sexism in tech gap is in how low performing man can be without harming his reputation of performance - people give them seemingly infinite benefit of doubt. And how little can he know without damaging reputation of knowing a lot.

(Not that woman can't abuse this or that - but she can abuse different things. She can't make herself look 10x worker with so little.)