Thanks for writing this! :-)

It's tough to see the statistics so skewed.

• Women were the original programmers since men left programming to the women, it was seen as some form of writing/typing, which is what women did anyway. Only when 'real money' came into programming men started doing the programming (yes, who taught them you think? ;-)) and women were back to being secretaries again.
• Women are better programmers if you ask both men and women to judge a piece of programming as objectively as possibly - when the name of the programmer is left out of judgement! Only when names of men/women are added men are perceived better programmers. Because we believe it's a men's job :-)

Just adding this because it might play a role in the Steemit witness statistics too ;-) These systems influence our thinking and it's a shame Steemit is following the same path.