After months of explaining what happened during the 2016 election to stunned supporters on her book tour, Hillary Clinton finally got to talk about the future, one in which women are no longer the minority when it comes to holding office or STEM careers.

Before a crowd of more than 10,000 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, most of whom were girls and young women from local schools there to celebrate STEM-related accomplishments, Clinton slipped into a new role. She was no longer a candidate; at the Girls Build Leadership Summit, she was a cheerleader.

“I hope that every remaining barrier, every legal or attitudinal barrier that still exists that tells a young girl you can’t do that because you’re a girl or makes that girl think that, we tear down once and for all,” she said to a roaring crowd, adding that as much as there are external hurdles, girls and women hold themselves back because of ill-conceived notions about their worth.

There’s been a big push to bring more STEM education into schools in recent years, but female participation still lags behind. Only 27 percent of students enrolled in an Advanced Placement Computer Science class this year were female. Less than 25 percent of STEM jobs are held by women, according to a 2011 report by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Read the full article by Brittany Levine Beckman about teen girls in STEM from Mashable