Norm-preserving behaviour is infamous among men in tech. The cork in that pressurised cask of Silicon Valley misogyny blew in the summer of 2017 when one Google employee put into words what so many men like him think and desperately seem to want: women don’t belong in these male spaces because their brains just can’t handle the man-work that these spaces require. The wish-fulfilling justification has remained unchanged for centuries, a facile crutch that well-e…