"In the beginning, the number of women studying computer science was equal to men until -- about 1984"

Actually, in the beginning, there was no computer science to study. I was a programmer on the IBM 360 mainframe in the late 1960s. There were no computer science department at the universities. Companies scrambled to find people who could be programmers. Everyone soon learned that men were, on the whole, far better at it than women. This is just a fact. You whole post is total BS.