...that *is* real work. Have you worked in tech before? 

I work in IT Development for Finance, we have close to a 50/50 split, half our Directors and Managers are women. Thing is, they are overwhelmingly first gen immigrants from India and China, educated largely outside this country, so may escape surveys of University-aged women in Canada, right now.  But it reveals an important question: Lots of women born outside North America work in tech, in the areas western academics feel women should be equally represented. Why? The west has strongly encouraged women to enter technical fields for decades now, but they don't. Meanwhile women from "less equal" countries enter in droves. My answer is: Women from India or China need to pursue tech careers for a better future. Western women don't need to (because they have it pretty good and can *choose* more personally satisfying careers), so don't.