It has been my observation over the last 40 years that men like the dry technology and hardcore science of computer IT. There is a right way  and a wrong way of doing things . Ideas either work or they don't. Garbage in, garbage out. It is fast and it is furious to develop cutting edge of technology year after year. The only thing male geeks want are people who can keep up.  Gender, race, religion, and taste in clothing are utterly irrelevant. That is what failed female applicants don't get: there is no crying in IT. It is a wildly competitive environment where everybody works overtime to survive. Any woman (or any man for that matter) who needs that explained to them is already out of the game, as is the writer and anybody who agrees with her.