While attitudes and practices that empower women in the workplace have certainly improved over the past several decades, it’s still not enough—especially when it comes to ensuring girls aspiring to careers in math and sciences have the opportunities and support to reach those goals.
Such was the consensus Wednesday during an afternoon of speeches and panel discussions at the second annual AFCEA Women in the Workforce: A Journey in STEM conference addressing the challenges professional women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) face, and the solutions to break down those barriers.