It's a great question.
I think the barriers that women face in participating in STEM have been better recognized, better talked about and really better.... I'm not going to say “addressed”, but they've been better called attention to over the past thirty-odd years.
Where I think we start to run into some significant absence of attention is on the experience of students with disabilities, of early-career researchers with disabilities and of women with disabilities doing STEM. I think part of the challenge ends up being this ableist perception of, “Well, you have a disability. You're not really supposed to be in science.” I've encountered it. It's real. It's there. I think there's this sense that you don't have “ability” X, so you can't really participate as a physicist. You can't really participate as a biochemist.
Then you have this conception of what a scientist should be. You also have this conception of what a productive scientist should be. That definition of productivity doesn't include parental leave. It doesn't include medical leave. It doesn't include mental health leave. It doesn't include needing assistance within the labs. You have these rather structural systemic barriers that are there around disability and that resonate for everybody with disabilities—racialized persons with disabilities, women with disabilities, indigenous scholars with disabilities.