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.