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I think they may never close it, few are willing to openly confront the elephant in the room -that there are a few inconvienient biological differences between the sexes. We are hooked on the progressive / post modern idea that men and women are 100% interchangeable and that our gender is pretty much all just social construction.

Women on average simply don't appear to gravitate towards that line of career as frequently as men do on average.
From an early age girls are usually more interested in people/social patterns, while boys are usually more interested in things/machines.
Look no further than the lack of a Gender parity right here on Subsim.

Of course there are plenty of exceptions on both sides.
But they have been doing all sorts of promotions and programs in both academia and the tech industry to get more women in to STEM fields for sometime now, but they are just not getting the numbers they want for a gender parity. They are often just more interested in fields like psychology, arts, humanities, political science, media studies etc.

Google Engineer James Demoore raised the issue in memo, he was trying to come up with solutions to make tech more appealing to woman, but he pointed out biological differences in Gender (Wrong think) -and was promptly branded a misogynist and fired.
yeah.....

Well, we will see in 15 years I guess, I wouldn't hold your breath though..