Comment Re:Where? (Score 2) 715
This subject tends to make men believe they are being accused of being sexist. That somehow the imbalance is a consequence of deliberate or perhaps inadvertent sexism. The thing is this: there doesn't need to be overt sexism for an environment to be uninviting.
Any situation where there is an existing gender imbalance leads to this imbalance being reinforced simply because it is less comfortable for the minority and more comfortable for the majority.
So when it is suggested that we need to make special efforts to attract women to the IT industry it is not necessarily to redress a active sexist attitudes on a matter of principle or to be PC, but rather a simple and pragmatic approach to getting the other half of the population to contribute to the IT industry.