and health-care in general, law, home-care, HR... the list goes on. Some of those careers have been completely taken over by women; look at stats on med school and law school admissions. That's great - but I'd say social stigma in education, nursing, HR holds back men more than women are discouraged / disparaged for working in technology or engineering. 

Society need to get over itself and focus on shifting our ideas on gender-appropriate roles, and then get rid of this affirmative action that helps noone