Why most of us programmers are men?

I don't know if it is most necessarily, but.

Historically without any facts I'd say that men have long been steered towards STEM related roles, whereas females have not. Purely as a long standing historical change in roles for Women vs roles for Men, there have been traditional roles for females vs males, however this is shifting.

There are so many reasons for this that I'm probably not best to talk to it. The important thing is that these things are changing to provide more choice.

Originally, it was women who did the programming, like Grace Hopper. When the 8-Bit home computers came out, they marketed them to boys to play video games and learn to program video games. Some girls used the home computers as well, but not the majority of them. Programming was marketed to men as a career choice, so we went to college or read books on how to program, and we got jobs as programmers.

Not all programmers are men; I want to make that clear to all genders who can be programmers.

not most

I’m a girl, this is a True story. It all started in the 7th grade when I declined the invitation to be in advanced maths and sciences classes because I thought math was for boys and it would be too hard and most of my friends would be in a different class. America 90s who would think

There's probably a lot of little nudges one can get in their life that make them more likely to pick up programming, but I think a big one for present generations is exposure to video games and video games being a thing that most of your friends do and compete on. When I was a teenager, boys were building PCs to play FPS games better, and now the younger guys entering the company cut their teeth modding Minecraft. Every exposure to "figuring something tricky out on the computer" is a potential gateway, and I think the social and cultural environment for guys exposes them to these little chances a lot more.

Oh boy, there's a whole report on this topic: https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/...

Social factors, not a skill issue.