When I graduated from my Applied Computing and Statistics degree in 1986 about 40% of the cohort were women

So this thing about women not doing computing wasn't true then. I think they were driven out by the macho types.

I mean, you've seen the film Hidden Figures.

The cliches about brains and ability are rubbish - there is a problem with the system because things got worse. The current status quo ain't all that.