Re: IT has a problem with fair treatment of women
"Does it? What's your evidence?"
I can't quantify attitudes, but let's stick our fingers in the air and ask the Google gods which way the wind is blowing...
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=men+in+midwifery
Lots of lovely positive stories about how men are rare in midwifery, but being accepted. And that's for a profession that can understandably have a sex difference to it - i.e. being a woman shouldn't matter when you're flying a plane, or cooking food, but conducting an intimate examination? You can see where sex makes a difference here.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=women+in+technology
Lots of support groups aimed at trying to get women into technology, or supporting their goals once they're in. There is a demand here.
In the end, it doesn't matter one whit if women, as a horrible generalisation, decide they don't want to go into technology. The problem is that we shouldn't be making the ones that do uncomfortable.
And the industry has a history of making women feel uncomfortable.
http://valleywag.gawker.com/this-is-why-there-arent-enough-women-in-tech-1221929631