Sylvia Martinez, president of Generation YES, discusses the need for more women in STEM careers. She notes the progression of math and science courses from kindergarten through calculus and physics that students take, and emphasizes that these fields need more women and we need to support all students. The document calls for doing better at engaging and supporting students in their education.

1. The Needle
in the
Haystack
Sylvia
Martinez
President,
Generation
YES

2. Math is hard!

3. Science careers in search of women Argonne National Laboratory

4. Kindergarten
Elementary
Middle School
Algebra
Biology
Geometry
Trigonometry
Chemistry
Calculus
Statistics
Physics

6. Photo credit - Raul Lieberwirth http://www.flickr.com/photos/lanier67/2408543184/

7. 
Bored Michelle Grabusnik
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26299815@N03/2488833259/

8. 
The Year I Rebelled Michael 1952 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike52ad/4675715489/

9. They all
need us.
We need all
of them.
Tinkering School Gever Tulley http://www.flickr.com/photos/gevertulley/5482209997

10. 
Tinkering School Gever Tulley http://www.flickr.com/photos/gevertulley/982130484/

11. 
Tinkering School Gever Tulley http://www.flickr.com/photos/gevertulley/982130484/

12. Test tubes! Kentucky Country Day http://www.flickr.com/photos/kentuckycountrydayschool/4158478596/

13. hard Furlong http://www.flickr.com/photos/government-lists-canada/6264374293/

16. Scantron mathface http://www.flickr.com/photos/schestok/414196453/

18. Too little, too late
x

20. Let's do
better things,
not just do
things better.
Photo credits: Stock.xchang, Library of Congress, Flickr (as noted)