This is not good for STEM, and this is not good for women. If the attention and effort to encourage women, children, underrepresented minorities, etc. in STEM gets diverted into &quot;STEAM,&quot; then there is a high likelihood that many groups will tout increased enrollment of women but funnel the women right into the A in STEAM. (Not necessarily on purpose, but for the same complicated reasons that women are underrepresented in STEM right now.) And then we&#x27;re in the same place we started, but with less visibility into the problem.