Maybe her concerns are shared amongst a majority of her female peers - thus leading to women either not wanting to join the field or leaving shortly after entering it.
I mean men and women are different. We tend to excel at different things, have different thought processes, process things differently, different strengths and weaknesses (generally, right? - there is obviously overlap).
Maybe her complaints help explain the lack of women in the field.
> We tend to excel at different things, have different thought processes, process things differently, different strengths and weaknesses (generally, right? - there is obviously overlap).
This could also be said of all individuals, sex aside.
Either way, I don't buy it. Nurses tend to mostly be women and yet the job is far harder than any software development job. It's more grueling hours, physically demanding, and mentally challenging. I think it's absurd to suggest that women as a whole can't handle the hours and demands of software development.
But being a nurse is more social than software is. And that aligns with what we know about the differences between where women tend to excel and where men tend to excel.[1]
And of course you can then argue that parts of software are more social and my argument would be that there are more women in those parts of software.
