Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men
Several related facts:1. In countries that empower women, they are less likely to choose math and science professions: 
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more...2. In the past 30 years women have made gains in traditionally male areas like law and medicine, but have gone backward in software engineering3. Men are disproportionately on the autism spectrumIt seems to me that aiming for 50% female representation in software engineering is not necessarily something we should be aiming at