STEM Careers: The Need to Get More Women Involved From the Start

We hear a lot about the need for greater emphasis on subjects like technology and engineering that are critical to our countrys infrastructure. A recent report from the White House Council on Women and Girls said its "especially disconcerting" that women make up only 25% of the STEM workforce. The report goes on to suggest non-participation in STEM may have an even higher cost for women.

Pair that with a very different issue thats regularly been the headlines this year: the number of women now running powerful technology corporations; like Meg Whitman at Hewlett-Packard, Virginia Rometty at IBM and Marissa Mayer at Yahoo!

The success of these business leaders achi…
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