I think that girls:  females under the age of 18 who are in high school or earlier,  should keep all of their options open and while in high school take:

four years of science

four years of math

four years of literature

three to four years of history

variety of electives

Then when they become Women (after 18 or after high school) and are in college, they can major in:

Any science field

Any engineering field

Any field.

I have known women who are leading engineers in:

Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

Civil Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Chemical Engineering

Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering

Materials Science and Engineering

Nuclear Engineering

Bio-Engineering

and women in a wide variety of scientific fields, including medicine.

There is No one great technical field for women just as there is No one great technical field for males.

Indeed, if one looks at the major areas of studies at MIT:

You will find lots of females in every department.

And every department can use more........

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Computer science

- It pays the best across all categories and has been on an upwards trajectory for the last 5 years. Good programmers are very hard to come by and companies will pay up to 220k for a very good Java programmer.

- It's non-strenuous. If you you make it through school, you'll be surrounded by male colleagues who value your brain more than your muscle. Contrast this to mechanical engineering. Where they will find your lack of muscles a huge drawback, even though they personally do not handle pipes themselves. It's just the misogynistic side all guys have making its ugly face shown here.

- Doesn't get outsourced. Lots of stories about companies who tried to outsource the brains of a project (the program) to a third world nation to try and save hourly costs, typically results in a ginormous mass. Most learn this valuable lesson the first time. Not to mention it'll suck for the next programmer taking the case because we hate to work on somebody else's code.

Programming is least well understood, compared to ME and EE.

- Programming is a weird field. More programmers doesn't mean more productivity. Even veteran programmer Elon Musk learned the hard way that a skilled engineer is 10 times more productive than a group of low-level engineers.

- Requires no more than your brain, a text editing software and a good computer if you wanna strike out on your own to do business in the future. Capital investment is all time low and you don't need to rent a workshop to write a software. You'll need to pay for the utility bills, tops, but so does all the other engineering fields.

Contrast this to ME where you'll need to buy expensive motors, inverters, hydraulics, which could be upward to tens of thousands of Ks.

- You'll be well regarded by ME people as a wizard. Electricity and programming are like magic to them.