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I'm tech-adjacent. I don't work on the tech explicitly, but I work at a hardware company. When I joined there were a few young women at the company. Covid times laid most of them off except the one actively into the hardware aspect. I think women just need to buckle down and get into the dirty bits. Explicitly work on hardware, software backend, all that kind of super male dominated aspects of tech companies. Too many women "settle" for frontend or webdev or get into similar positions like me as part of Office Admin, HR, customer support. In that position, there is no influence. From what I hear of my male coworkers, hardware engineers and data center people are hard to come by. When the pool for "fresh blood" is limited, they tend to choose more meritocratically. I will say that hardware does not seem as progressive, but it is an industry largely made up of boomer males so take that as you will.