I dont think people often know exactly how rural most of VA is

Hey, Im a man in healthcare. I am worried you're asking for equality for the sake of making things equal but not necessarily equitable. Speaking from my side, there are literally 0 barriers to entry as a man into health, and from what I know about comp sci careers, there are no large barriers there either. (Although, this is obviously from anecdotal stories from my mother, who had a comp sci degree and from my peers of any gender who have gone into comp sci).

There is clearly a descriptive disparity, but not a normative one. That is to say there's no harm being caused by different people pursuing different vocations. From my perspective, I ask the question "Would patient outcomes be any different if there were more male nurses" and the answer is a resounding no, as male and female nurses are identical in quality, in general, aside from a few niche cases like transporting large patients, and even then only some men would be better than some women at that specific task.

People's interests are their own, and so long as no one is disallowed from pursuing their own interests, I don't think any harms being done. In fact any attempt to equalize this normal distribution could come at a cost of limitting peoples natural interests

Why does anything need to be done?

Yeah and things that are good are NEVER popular. Especially not by orders of magnitude over their competition.

/s

Theres a massive difference between taking a day off and feeling incapable of being excitable to do anything.