There&#x27;s a lot of that in there:<p>&gt; Today&#x27;s programming resembles design and construction of large mechanisms a lot more than word processing. The majority of women just don&#x27;t find these things as interesting as men do.<p>Do the majority of men find those things interesting? Do women like word processing and menial tasks?<p>Is it possible that as the job of software engineer garnered more money and status, women were shut out?<p>I don&#x27;t know, but this article doesn&#x27;t answer these questions.