On your comment about parents guiding their girls into certain careers, I don't see that as being so prevalent today. Part of the issue is that coding isn't viewed as a social experience, so it isolates - especially - girls, as teenagers feel peer pressure to be doing social activities. I strongly remember being 15 and wanting to be in the computer lab, but it was deemed unseemly by my peers and at that age it's more important to keep your relationships intact. So I started coding in my early twenties when my peers were busy studying or working so the social aspect was less of an issue.
Perhaps in some subcultures, but I know in at least a one immigrant community girls seem to be actively dissuaded from pursuing any engineering degrees whatsoever and steered instead toward the medical field in some capacity, or business degrees. When my significant other told her family she was changing majors to an engineering field away from a business field, they were pretty upset.
In addition I noticed in the Bay Area when I lived there for a few years many of the immigrant Asians really didn't give a damn one way or the other what their daughters did. This is actually worse, in my opinion.
Ah well, here is to the hope more of the sublimely proficient women I know seek engineering careers instead of pigeonholing themselves into "touchy feely" crap fields like marketing & PR.
didn't give a damn one way or the other what their daughters did doesn't mention the word career. I do not know whether that is what was intended, but I interpreted it as "parents not giving a damn about whether their daughters have a career".
