“I’ve been in the engineering industry for 30 years, and we were talking about these same issues 30 years ago,” said the National Science Foundation’s Theresa A. Maldonado at a recent Aspen Institute Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century event, Filling the Skills Gap in Manufacturing: The Untapped Resource. Panelists discussed the lack of female-friendly work policies plaguing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. And yet, the stakes for integrating women into the industry have never been higher.