Re: Just another normal week for machine learning ("AI") then
"There used to be far more women in IT >30 years ago and going back many years before that it was unremarkable. First place I worked it was close to parity but many started to leave as management became increasingly toxic."
Sadly that was also the experience of a woman friend of mine who worked in financial IT in the period you refer to.
Listening to her experience I also got the impression that the management was ineffective, focussed on presenteism rather than productivity, and disorganised and therefore inefficient.