As a person with a Ph.D. in physics, I can assure you that progress has been slow. I think the role of mentorship is enormous, so the ability to see people a couple of steps ahead who are doing what you want to do, the ability to talk about those stories in a way that doesn't say this is the first woman professor at SFU, the way to do that is huge.
There are so many of these mentorship organizations. SCWIST has a program called ms infinity, which does programs for kids just the way WISE does. There are WISE-similar organizations all across the country.
It frustrates the living daylights out of me that they're not connected. When there's one woman in physics here and one woman in physics there—