The thing is it may also explain preferences in other areas, which may affect interest and competence. It is good to have some gender balance in most workplaces, and imbalance may worsen work conditions. Balance can make it more attractive for the opposite sex in general, not just for the outlier few.

Yes, but forcing balance via quota; or taking a naive approach like shoveling comp sci to girls; is taking a hammer approach to a very nuanced problem.

Programming used to be done by women. At some point it flipped, but even in the 1980s there was clearly greatness https://www.fastcompany.com/90151279/the-woman-supercomputer...

Though note that the above designer went off to become an artist.

Rather than forcing the issue, the question that ought to be asked is what made/makes a former mostly-women dominated field appear so unappealing to women today?

I should also point out to that high paying and very physically demanding jobs such as nursing are dominated by women.

The issue can be as simple as a image problem. Kids, who wants to be lazy, mostly alone in front of a screen, and solving problems quietly, and get paid well for it?

Of course, no one will even ask this question if it’s career suicide to do so.

80's became a huge boom to individuality and cut-throat competition, just saying.

What does the 1980s being cutthroat have anything to do with the topic at hand?

Sorry forgot explanation.

Alphamales tend to create and thrive in such workplace environment, to detriment of everyone else.