A very good response, particularly if you like references and such.<p>"<i>It’s worth remembering that many of the first programmers were women, and that they made enormous contributions to developing the field of computer science. Female participation only declined when programming became a lucrative, gender-stereotyped career.</i>"<p>As an aside, this is not the only example of that kind of change. I'll insert my periodic recommendation for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Suppress_Women%27s_Writing" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Suppress_Women%27s_Writ...</a><p>"<i>That’s about sociopolitical structures, not evolution. There’s no reason to think we can’t correct it [that low status men are regarded as disposable by high status men] culturally — our ancestors maintained egalitarian societies in most places for countless millennia, until the invention of farming allowed them to concentrate resources across generations and thus reinvent chimp-like hierarchies.</i>"<p>I would really, really like sources for that last sentence.