Maybe you have a point, I should look into this and see if there are forums where women are trying to push into this field. I have family that works on off-shore rigs, and I've never heard a peep about it. But that is anecdotal.

Any proof of that ?

Of course I only have a myopic point of view of the software industry but I don't hear the same noise from other industries

Not that myopic; gender in tech is front page news in the mainstream press. Not so much about any other industry.