When computers were first created it was assumed all programmers would be women because only women would have the patience to program all the one's and zero's. Then a woman created the first assembler ...
Click bait and how to lie with statistics - the paper can be summarized : we show that adversarial environment drive selection. Hence women have to become better coder due to lack of opportunity acting as a filter through fiercer competition. Nothing new under the sun + the article doesn't address the underlying issues.
"The paper is awaiting peer review.
This means the results have yet to be critically appraised by other experts."
Difficult to comment on this, it may be illuminating a real factor, but without seeing what data they used, or how they processed said data, its mildly interesting at best.