Equal Futures: Opening Doors to High-Quality Education and
Career Opportunities for Women and Girls in STEM Last week, at
an event in New York City, 17-year-old Brittany Wenger joined
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and 12 other international
leaders for the official launch of the Equal Futures
Partnership, a new multilateral initiative to break down
barriers to women's political participation and economic
opportunity. Brittany, Grand Prize winner of the Google Science
Fair, was an honored guest at the launch of Equal Futures, which
seeks to ensure that more young women like her have the chance
to excel worldwide. The US contribution to Equal Futures
includes a renewed commitment to opening more doors to high-
quality education and career opportunities in science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for women and girls,
who currently hold only one-quarter of all US jobs in these
fields despite making up nearly half of the total US workforce.
These new efforts will build upon the President’s and First L