You raised an issue that's deeply troubling to me, and not just for coding and the computational fields, but for professional industries generally, and that's the high rate of women departing partway into their careers.
There are also problems getting in, but I've seen it in law, even where a majority of the students who are graduating are female. A few years in.... There are a number of reasons why it may be the case, but from the federal government perspective, we're going to make recommendations to the government to say that this is a problem it needs to tackle. What can we ask the government to do to help different professions, including coding, keep women in the workforce so they can reach those higher levels?