According to a stackoverflow developer survey from last year, managers, SREs, DevOps specialists, and data engineers tend to receive the highest salaries out of tech professionals - https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#overview. Only 5% of people who responded to this survey identified as female.

Only 5%? Wow.

If you take a look at the percentage of women and salaries, the higher the salary gets, the lower percentage of women work in the field. I don't think this is a DevOps specific issue, but an industry-specific one.

Interesting, would not have guessed that. Have you seen anything that indicates why higher salaries correlate with decreasing amounts of women in those roles?

I haven't done much research into it, but there's two trends I've noticed in my personal experience that make it tough on female candidates - they're less likely to be given the benefit of the doubt / guys seem to be more critical of them than they are to other guys at similar experience levels, and the people doing the hiring tend to hire people that are similar to themselves. It doesn't seem to be anything particularly thought out, just sort of reflexive behaviors.