Revenge of the Female Nerds (23c3)

Why do media and industry lag behind reality when it comes to estimating women's technical and scientific abilities? That women have these abilities is obvious. The question is how to change social expectations about them. What are women doing, and what can they do, to combat pervasive myths about their inferiority as engineers and scientists? about this event: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/events/1709.en.html