As a female with an engineering degree (doing software and algorithms nowadays) I couldn't agree more.  The fields of tech and engineering have been extremely welcoming, friendly and almost heart-warmingly kind to me.  The ONLY times my gender has come up has been in remarks like "Hey it's really cool that you're a female in engineering."  Nothing more.  That's it. It's not discrimination at all.  Engineering just requires a massive amount of work, not only to get the degree but to work every day in the field.  It's easier to play victim and scream discrimination than work hard...