&gt; why the worry?<p>Artificially limiting the supply of talent to something that I assume many of us on HN believe to be an important field is not a good thing.<p>&gt; Why aren&#x27;t we as worried that not enough men show interest in being nurses or kindergarten teachers or social workers?<p>I think that is important, teaching young children particularly since good teachers can have an enormous influence on a large number of people.<p>One big difference however is in the scale of pay.