Don’t be fooled by the recent spate of organizations that have popped up to get girls more interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. The U.S. has big structural problems that are preventing the large number of talented young girls from becoming scientists and engineers. That much was immediately clear to Tara Chklovski when she immigrated from India at age 21. Chklovski came to the U.S. wanting to be a pilot or aerospace engineer, but quickly found that women aren’t as excited about STEM careers as they are in India. “It’s more culturally accepted to have shopping as a hobby than to have tinkering as a hobby,” she says.  More>>