I do programming for a living and have done some level design on my own mods, though it tends to be somewhat random and chaotic. Not sure I could ever work in a high-pressure environment like games or other entertainment, though: tech companies were bad enough!
I followed a long discussion on that (on a devs forum), but it's in French
And by the way, in 87, 42% of devs were women.
PS : found the original article, and it's in English.
http://blog.fogcreek.com/girls-go-geek-again/
