• and we need to attract more people to this field if they have an interest

    Who are 'we' and how would that go? There are many aspects of this, if we educate more by lowering the standards, that's something few wants. If we get more interested and more gets educated and interested then it would lower the salaries for everyone since there are more people to chose between. Simple market economy, and this is the good part. Depending on interests, difficulty and salary you get a specific amount of students. Were the salaries to go up, you'd get more students searching to our business area.

    In conclusion, I do not really see a problem. Thou I do agree that the gender balance could be better. But to expect females and males to think alike is to be naive.