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Getting more women into STEM can improve financial outcomes
That women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) training, and careers cannot be gainsaid. FILE PHOTO | SHUTTERSTOCK
Growing up, I never saw an engineer from my family, no less a woman engineer! It took a lot of convincing my father that this was the career path I would like to venture into and that it was worth investing in.
I won that battle but I was not ready for what awaited me in school. I went to the University of Salford in Manchester, UK. In a class of 53, only four of us were women.
