I don't understand this whole thing.
Until recent years all developers I met were socially awkward men, me included.
These are not the kind of people I would attribute any power to "crowd out" anyone.
To me it seemed that they started doing computer stuff, because no one, including women, wanted to have anything to do with them.
The "cool", way more aggressive, kids wanted to do sales, law, finance, management and stuff.
Computers were new and complicated, a unsafe bet for people who were so good included into society.
Until recent years all developers I met were socially awkward men, me included.
These are not the kind of people I would attribute any power to "crowd out" anyone.
To me it seemed that they started doing computer stuff, because no one, including women, wanted to have anything to do with them.
The "cool", way more aggressive, kids wanted to do sales, law, finance, management and stuff.
Computers were new and complicated, a unsafe bet for people who were so good included into society.