And another article about the question "Where have the girls [in IT] gone?" Much more interesting than following the assumed reason for this well-known phenomenon of the dramatic loss of female IT workers in the last few years are the reader's comments. For example this one from an anonymous reader:

Having been in IT for 30 years, I have encountered lack of support, devaluation of my contributions, endured comments like "software is now so good even a girl can do it" (from someone ignorant of Grace Hopper, and lately, with a large influx of foreign-born male programmers, I have had to put up with cross-cultural snubbing as well and the looks of "just let her talk, we'll decide out how we'll do it later when she's not here;" and watched in disbelief as I moved from job-to-job and was always replaced by several people, all of which were male and each of which was paid more than myself. "Girls" aren't dumb - they are learning from their mothers' and aunts' mistakes and looking for more fertile ground.

That sums it up for me.