It's an interesting idea: that the real problem is that things are really tough for beginners now, and since women are more likely to be beginners, it hits them harder as a group. But if so, you'd also expect a chorus of young men complaining about their experience in tech too, which I just haven't heard much of. After all, even if women are disproportionally beginners, beginners are still disproportionally men. (Come to think of it, I've never heard a woman complain that all the tutorials suck either.) I'd be curious to hear otherwise, but my impression was that the state of online programming education options are the best they've ever been.

So I doubt your theory. And so it seems that either those tutorials have a more intrinsic gender bias (defensible but needs defended) or the problem has nothing to do with tutorials on the internet and has deeper and broader causes, which is my default position. Or, like you said:

> Somehow I don't feel like tutorial writing is the missing link to fix the gender gap in our industry.