More options, increasingly male-oriented games to blame for gender gap

After reading "What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?" I though several of the points made in the article were some of the very ones I think cause(d) the gender gap.

1) Although it may sound trivial, there is something to be said about girls/women not wanting to have the stigma of being nerdy or dorky for working in the computer field. We want to to think we have come a long way for women's self-esteem. But with the field of computer science and games becoming increasingly male-oriented, it seems difficult for there to be a space for women.

2) The games these days are so much more aimed at the teenage boy, the entrepreneur 20-something, the mid-life crisis dad. I remember when I used to play Mario brothers on Super Nintendo with my brother. Or Duck hunting, remember that? Those games were incredibly simple. There wasn't a lot of shoot-em up violence, war strategy, car theft themes coming from every corner like there is today. I do think that has a lot to do with the capabilities for games back then--we just didn't have what we do today, duh. But I think just like a genre of movies, books, types of musician or artists, games are just naturally geared toward men. And if in the time of their peak they are being designed by me, mostly consumed and played by men, then why would there be a large number of women trying to get in that market? You don't see a lot of romantic comedies being written by men do you?

3)I think another reason for the lack of women in this field could be that there are so many more career options for women in dominantly women fields and also fields where it is more balanced for men and women. Now more than ever women are going after jobs that they maybe didn't used to in the past. Journalism, news anchors, directors, scientists, doctors, politicians, etc. These fields are much more balanced. With so many (seemingly more fair) options, why would we try to get into a career of computer science and perhaps not do as well?