A very good response, particularly if you like references and such.
"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."
As an aside, this is not the only example of that kind of change. I'll insert my periodic recommendation for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Suppress_Women%27s_Writ...
"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 would really, really like sources for that last sentence.
