In 2001, I became the first tenured female faculty member ever in Yale’s physics department.
Throughout my 30 years as a physicist, being the only woman in the room has been the norm. Women fill more than half of the jobs in the U.S. economy but constitute fewer than 12% of working physicists and engineers.
For me and for others in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), the dearth of women is not news.