First of all.
Ms. Kovitz is CEO of Acetech.
It's a networking org for CEO/COO's of tech companies.
Annual membership $6K. (but that includes dinner).
Secondly, the gender gap argument has been challenged before.
The social justice ideology holds that there are legions of talented and skilled women just itching for a job in high tech but they're somehow being shut out.
The argument is embellished with the notion that this untapped talent is a detriment to the nation. 
No worries - gender quotas are an easy fix. 
Women happy and Canada a high tech equality juggernaut in an instant. 
Easy for those too lazy to look past "injustice" for the answers. 
For example, the fact that women overall just may not be interested in some employment sectors. 
Men are perfectly capable of being nurses but are hugely under-represented.
Are they being shut out?  
Do we need gender quotas in our hospitals to correct this injustice?
Or maybe men overall just don't go in for nursing.