ABSTRACT
Technology is shaping our daily lives, and inexorably, our futures. STEM professionals who wield these tools remain generally underappreciated. Women remain underrepresented among these professionals. As the STEM job market expands, it’s offering women unprecedented opportunities to pursue rewarding careers that contribute to the greater good. Many initiatives are underway to capitalize on this, in the name of simple gender equality. Academic departments operate within bureaucracies but can also be entrepreneurial, routinely partnering and collaborating with industry and government, typically conducting research that their partners fund. Change the Equation "works at the intersection of business and education to ensure that all students are STEM literate by collaborating with schools, communities, and states". In 2016, there are 350 engineering-school deans in United States universities, and a mere 10% of these are women.
