Women and Computing

I think that if a woman wants to get a degree in Computer Science and work as a software engineer that is great and commendable. If they do choose this path, they should be treated fairly, promoted according to their capabilities, and be paid the same amount as a man of equal ability and value. Where I get a little leery about this topic is when people say, "We need more woman in technical fields. Let's go and campaign and promote these fields to women." They say this like it is a bad thing that women aren't going into technical fields. I don't think it's a bad thing or a good thing. It's just how it is. Why come up with ways to trick or convince people to enter these fields? That seems like a waste of resources. We had a speaker today in class that said that girls have already made up their mind in High School not to do these fields and that we need to into the elementary schools to tell girls they should look into these fields. It's not like in elementary schools now that they take all the boys and tell them to become Computer Scientists and that's why it's a male dominated field. So why do people feel the need to do that with girls? Maybe it's because of our biological differences that men generally are more attracted to this field. Why waste time and money trying to change that?