Now that I am on vacation I realise that there was a period of 3 months this year in which I didn't talk to any female at all except for my mom and sister, just because there are almosy no girls that study software engineering... What the fuck is happening here? Could we please make SE more attractive for women? Its not just that I would like to flirt with women, I think that having women around would improve a great deal of things. For instance, I think that a group dynamic is a lot better if the group contains women.

How do you think we can make software development more appealing to women?

I don't think anything can be done, because software development isn't inherently masculine or feminine. The women who like programming, already like it and you can't force somebody to like something they don't.

@jsframework9000 I don't know if that's true. If software development is not inherently masculine or feminine (which it isn't so I agree with you on that), there should be a more even distribution of women and men in software development. The fact that such a small amount of women actually chooses for a career in software development would, from my point of view, mean that women who are interested or could be interested in a career as a software developer are being deterred from it by something.

we have almost no women in sewage processing industry as well. could we please make the sewage processing industry more attractive for women?

When I was at uni doing computer science there were over 400 students in my year group. 3 of them were female.

My country many women studied in computer science but end up with work not related to study because they think is hard programming in real world.

In my own opinion, programming is already attractive to women. It's just that some of us encounter things that might discourage us. I've heard(or read) confessions from women that they were being harassed in the work place or some men(or even women) treat them as a threat so they try to pull them down. I guess some aspiring women devs just don't go to the software dev path because of the people and not because of the programming language. I am fortunate that I always end up in a company or team where men treat me equally and respect me that's why I continue working in the IT industry. We have support groups like Women in Tech that we encourage and give advices. All of the members there love programming languages, it's just that some work environments are not women friendly.