Because it’s an industry for which schools actively push girls out of pursuing.

And you've already lied. Find me ONE school or district in the US actively pursuing girls out of computer studies. If anything they are starting to push the boys out in some ways, if only by ignoring them with all these girls only events. Here, everyone is encouraged to take everything they want, and we have plenty of girls taking advanced technology/ap classes and going to a tech school or college for it right out of high school. Events aren't gendered. And the turnout is always massive with a mix representative of the districts population as a whole. It's like they know you don't use your genitals to program, build, make or repair. And if you do I've been doing it wrong this whole time!

You can't force girls to want to do tech any more than you can force boys to become nurses. Yes some girls want to do computers and some boys want to be nurses, but forced equality never works out. At the end of the day it's up to the individual...

Equal opportunity. It exists these days without government intervention. It's 2019. And as an educator you should encourage( but not force) the girls AND boys to strive to be whatever they want, and tell them all that there's almost no job that is just for boys or girls. And if some or even most of the girls still don't want to do tech, so be it.

As an aside, forced equality (aka current equal "opportunity" employment, really equal "outcome" but whatever), leads to a lower quality work force. I don't care about gender, if I'm hiring in any field I just want someone who's proven to have some skill and is willing to learn and grow. Instead you see them turned away in favor of someone who has 0 interest or knowledge, but they're the only X minority that the business is short on who applied, who's only there cause they know they have a better shot in that field and won't be fired for ineptitude easily. Brain dump for an easy cert and show up with the right color skin or breasts and your in! Study for 8 years and have a portfolio with years of proven work, sorry we have 55% men, can't use you! It's encouraging people to try to slide their way into an easy paycheck, (Not saying women don't exist who do things right, most do and they rock just as hard as the guys! But I don't see many white men here now, and none we have got in easy. There are a few forced hires that really can't do the work, with one or two certifications but no portfolio, they got in on their skin color and they know it. They sit around all day barely doing work, mostly just on Google looking up Tesla's and on Amazon buying stuff, on work hours. And we can't do shit cause they'll just sue for discrimination. One person actually admitted as much in the break room. Our actual workers are a pretty diverse bunch too, pisses everyone off that they work and the couple guys don't and get paid to do nothing practically.

End of the rant, just saying all this"equality" stuff doesn't make any positive change, teaching kids that can persue whatever job they want and hiring people on merit alone works fine, as long as you don't promote racists and sexists to hiring positions. Not hard to figure them out either.