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Is it just me, or is he implying that there are less women in computer science because it's too hard for them? He's also implying that high level languages were harder to learn than assembly, but that's a whole nother issue...Last year this graph went around the internet, showing how the number of women programmers began to drop off in the mid-80s
I was recently struck by a vague correlation: that's around the time we stopped programming in assembly!
Perhaps it's not accidental that that was when the demographics started to shift at the top of the funnel? Perhaps there was something about high-level languages that added an extra layer of complexity early on, and made programming harder to learn.