Absolutely. I had a 40 years in the field and most programmers I worked with had terrible math. Not all---computer science is very mathematical---but most. Programming actually has very little to do with math, or strictly speaking, with computer science. And when it does, it's primarily about the curves that describe resource consumption of an algorithm as the problem size grows. Thus, the math you use tends to be quite intuitive, and not at all like algebra. I know what I'm talking about---I struggled my way through elementary math but got an MS in CS late in life, and ended up doing vastly more math in the course of my work than 95% of programmers, who are mostly mathematically illiterate. Moreover, the few who are not almost all lateraled in from one of the more openly mathematical sciences like physics because they learned to code along the way as an incidental skill. One thing I have noticed throughout my career is that women actually tend to be better at math than men, not worse. What they tend to be worse at is blustering their way past that weakness. When women get stalled on math, they more often despair, while men just blow past saying, "Who gives a $#@! about that---I can code like a #$@!!$." As a person who spent a lot of time as a CS TA, I can tell you that the women were typically at least as strong as the men, but they tended to get defeated by that stupid dynamic. It's actually worse now than it was 35 or 40 years ago. The percentage of women entering the field was 5% back then. Today, I hear that it's sunk even lower. For the dumbest reason ever. BTW, it's worth mentioning that 95% of men are also psychologically unequipped to be professional programmers. For both genders, the percentage of people who wouldn't throw themselves out the window rather than spend the day coding is quite small.