@BryanLunduke : @NPR presented a "counterpoint" to the fired Google Engineer. In it they present, as evidence he's wrong, Harvey Mudd College where CS majors went from 10% women to 40-50%. How? By doing the things he suggested:

"Klawe says they also countered the stereotype that computer geeks were guys who spent all their time alone in a basement. "They had very deliberately made it collaborative and involving teamwork instead of being lonely," she says."

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/10/542638758/colleges-have-increased-women-computer-science-majors-what-can-google-learn