How Does Gender Affect My Career?

Gender effects on my career:
It seems that many jobs in the computing industry suffers the same gender distributions as the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. It has been shown that the environment of a child growing up can influence their decisions in the future, which includes their occupation. It can be argued that as a male, the experiences with my family, friends, and community has lead me to pursue computing as an occupation today, and as a female could have resulted in a different career path.
Most of my childhood was spent playing and talking about computer games with my friends. This led to my interest in computer science during highschool when we were given an introductory course on computer programing. We were able to create any type of program as a final project, and many of my peers at the time choose games, as it was something we had all enjoyed playing. As we talked about our projects, we grew interested in various technologies that we were using resulting in an interest in computer science as a group. This can be said with a lot of my current friends and peers in university, in which games had led them to pursue a career in programming.
Not being educated in Canada, and only having a highschool degree in our home country, a lot of their knowledge would come from word and mouth of other parents. The common sought after job would have been engineers, doctors or lawyers, due to their potential wages, and any other job would have seemed inferior to them. It would take a long time to convince them that the job prospects as a computer programmer would be just as good or even better compared to their choices. They would not have had different opinion on careers if I had been a female, but they would have been more lenient to other