Even better, putting their phones on speaker so everybody else can hear both sides of the conversation.

See, I come across an article like this and I think, "well, at least they're being sort of reasonable here, even if I don't agree with their conclusions", and then somebody like you comes along and makes it crystal clear again what this is actually about, and it has nothing to do with gender equality. "make myself feel better?" What, exactly, is it that I would have to feel bad about? If anybody "pushed out" the women in tech, it was the apocryphal top-hat wearing, cigar-smoking, "good-old-boy network" that wanted them back home and in the kitchen, not me - I just found something I liked, studied it, and pursued a career in it. People like you are a good reminder that every time we hear about "equality in tech" what they're actually talking about is keeping down the nerds - sorry, "tech bros" - who've gotten just a little too uppity and forgotten their place in the pecking order and need to be brought back in line.