Studies show that the more egalitarian the society, the larger the differences in choices men and women make.

It's only when there's a lot of economic pressure that women that they start going into fields they don't tend to go into. India, specifically, has a lot of pressure for people to go into software dev.

Here's the LA Times talking about it:

https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-women-e...