First of all forget whoever is trying to let you know that you need to butt out of your daughter's life decisions. Those have no skin in the game. Of course there are a lot of extroverts in the software industry and they are in high demand. Social skills are a must to be able to understand the user and her requirements. There are lots of women engineers and here is a link to one site she could check out and start the search if she is really intersted. EngineerGirl - Software Engineer and Computer Scientist[^] Good luck to you in trying to guide your daughter to choose a path for herself and best of luck to her trying to choose one.

How about a keyboard and start typing furiously?