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I misread a "seemed to be" as "was", all right, but .... oh well, yeah, maybe it should have been clear:

Unfortunately true. Supposedly some companies started figuring that out -- I want to say a couple of decades ago, but I'm not sure -- and offering an alternate job-advancement track for people who wanted to stay technical. No idea how well that matches reality, but maybe the "research fellow" jobs in some corporate R&D labs are an example?

"Women don't stay technical", though, still tells you nothing about their overall numbers in computing-and-computing-management. We have some anecdotal evidence that they're there in more than token numbers, but whether that means 5% or 30% or what, I can't tell from what's been said so far in this thread. I have one source that says they're "underrepresented" in computing management jobs too. No one has really contradicted this, except by saying in a general way that statistics are suspect and the organization that collected this batch (US Census Bureau) has made mistakes in other areas.

I think we're just arguing here, though, about who said what, what they meant, and so forth. The main points seem to be being addressed in other -- branches of this thread? whatever the term is.

-- B. L. Mbuttingill ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.