This study, and the news articles about it, say a lot more about <i>attitudes towards</i> software developers, than it does about software developers themselves.<p>And those attitudes are disturbing. They describe the industry as a terrible, sexist place, even though the actual study shows the exact opposite.<p>This isn&#x27;t just insulting to us software engineers, which it definitely is. It&#x27;s also making the problem worse. Why should women be interested to join a field that is described as horrible to them?