"greater gender diversity in science"

This link is presented because I know from personal experience how few women are involved in technical fields  It doesn't need to be this way  Often technicians become proficient almost on their own as they pursue an interest or work with a team to develop a product  More than once my own job in the field of microwave was almost put in jeopardy had I failed to produce positive results for theories that proved current calibrating practices for the new digital system analyzers inaccurate  Women were often used as supervisors who had skills  

"Steitz, who has advocated for greater gender diversity in science and co-authored a 2005 National Academy of Sciences report on bias and other barriers to women in “STEM” (science, technology, engineering and Mathematics), spoke with Scientific American about her career, the #MeToo movement and working with James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA."

Source scientificamerican.com

Joan Argetsinger Steitz. Credit: Courtesy of Lasker Foundation