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But to be literal, I asked because I wanted to talk about it and not just read about. However that may have been a mistake on my part; this article, found through my search engine, was pretty good: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/08/why-are...

Points raised in the article:

1. Inherent differences between genders, if they exist, are tiny, and vary considerably from region to region

2. Starting in the 80s computers were marketed towards males

3. Computers were often in the male sibling's bedroom and not their own, according to interviews with some female CMU students in the 90s

4. Self-bias "For instance, girls tend to score worse on a test if they are told their maths skills are being assessed than when they are told they are taking part in a study investigating how people solve problems."

5. Hostile work environments: articles about why women should not be in the workplace, sexual harassment and illegal discrimination

6. May not be a worse gender gap than other industries such as finance or media

7. Cultural: women can (physically) start a family by having children; men cannot; there is an cost to staying in a work environment with regard to starting a family, and there is a "risk-taking" in the tech industry (to be honest, I've always found it very a secure line of work, but that is what the article says)

8. Tech may be well placed to bring more females into the workplace

9. Startups where someone is encouraged to spend a lot of time at the workplace are not doable for primary caregivers (which is often mothers)

10. Algorithmic biases being implicitly developed by a mostly male workforce (e.g. voice recognition trained and tested solely by men)

Final line from the article, and why I posted my root post to begin with: “Computing is too important to be left to men.”

So there is a whole host of reasons.