My SO is one of the women who are better off because they got through a CS degree instead of an alternate. She could have been a good molecular biologist or teacher, but she&#x27;s a <i>spectacular</i> software engineer, especially for those high-level business-use&#x2F;architectural tasks that a lot of devs can&#x27;t handle. She&#x27;d be a lot less happy right now if her dad had managed to succeed in convincing her that girls can&#x27;t program.