https://medium.com/@rachaelrenk1/i-am-the-girl-that-stem-lost-923e6b93eeec > Rachael RenkBlockedUnblockFollowFollowingDec 7Photo by Thought Catalog on UnsplashToday, I sat down to revisit a blog post I wrote in grad school about female web developers. My plan was to refresh and expand the post before re-publishing it as a new and improved opinion piece exploring the gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. As I started to write a refreshed introduction framing why I care about the gap at all, I quickly realized that the story I was telling demanded an essay all its own. > I recently read an article by Emily J. Smith in which she explores the STEM gap, women’s declining interest in tech, and the argument that the lack of interest is biological. Smith observes that while there is no shortage of data and statistics to support the existence of this gap, the debate is missing stories from the women in technology — “the most critical piece of data”.