First Woman Director At MIT CS AI Lab: "Want More Women In STEM? Inspire Them Early."

We decide on our careers long before we ever step foot in our workplace. We take cues from our family and dramatized media depictions of professionals who often look and act nothing like their real-life counterparts. Therefore, to solve the gender inequality in technical roles, we need to kickstart our efforts in college or even high school – when students are open-minded, and there is still time to make real change. Because later in life, for every dollar men earn – women earn 81 cents. One woman trailblazing change is Professor Daniela Rus, the first woman director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Lab, or MIT CSAIL for short.