Computing women

Frequently men are known to compare the understanding of women to the most difficult problems they face. As a computer scientist, this implies that understanding women is an algorithm of exponential or even factorial time and space complexity with possibly non-deterministic results. Perhaps this is a reason why men are still blundering about finding incomplete solutions to ill-defined problems relating to the involvement of women in the computer field. Why is computing still a male dominated field? Clearly, it has some appeal to women. My wife and sisters are excellent examples of this. Yet women are still found under-represented at commencement. Are we as men discouraging them from continuing through the degree program? Are we making the field uninteresting to them through our teaching methods and/or hygiene practices? Is it possible that women are simply not interested in the field? In order to find the solution, we truly need a better conception of the problem. The truth is that we don't know what keeps women from becoming prominent and successful in our field, and until we achieve that vital problem formulation, we will never be able to make the changes that we clearly need to make. Has anyone ever thought to ask?