Like many toddlers, Grace loved playing the role of a doctor. Her stuffed animals would be lined up across her bed, waiting for their turn to be checked by her. Becoming a doctor had become her dream.

Grace was an attentive child. Whenever she would be in the hospital, she would pay very close attention to what doctors and nurses were doing. She would later imitate their actions when she was playing.

When she turned seven, her interests slowly changed. Grace knew she still wanted to be a doctor, but she discovered her love for computers. What started out as playing games to keep her from boredom would help her explore different career options for the future.

Grace continued her progress by teaching herself to design and code a website while incorporating being skilled at Photoshop by age 11. Her attentive trait helped her. She practiced with pre-made HTML codes and studied them until she became familiar enough with them. Unconscious of where her abilities could already take her, she was designing and coding just for fun.

She could have been a website developer or a graphic designer. She could have gone into computer engineering.

The problem Grace, like 62 percent of girls, stumbled upon is not having more support, especially from female role models who work as coders and developers.

Though girls, from 11 to 30 years old, feel that they have great examples of women in STEM, there is still a lack of "roles models from more technical disciplines." This may play a significant fact as to why girls are discouraged from going into STEM careers.

Representation does matter for young women considering a career in STEM. As young as 11, a girl initiates an interest in science, technology, engineering and math. The most vital part of keeping and furthermore developing their interest is encouragement from women in the those fields. Without role models to look up to, girls are bound to lose the curiosity and enthusiasm they have.

Imposter syndrome tends to come in the way of female empowerment. The term is defined as "the process where women fail to recognize their own achievements and fear being being exposed as fraud." It has been synonymous with the women in the field of technology.

According to Computer Weekly, Deena Gornick said: "'Technology is such a male-dominated culture that there's still that old idea of women entering the industry being immigrants, pioneers still forging through territory that is still a man's domain.'"

Women do not always receive the recognition they deserve. It is more difficult for them to pursue and work in fields mostly composed of men. The perseverance women have is as obvious as the doubt they have about themselves. Rather than being uplifted more, they experience being belittled or criticized.

Beginning in their early years, girls should be encouraged when they show interest in STEM. The encouragement should be continued when they reach womanhood. Having a strong foundation of support helps them achieve more than they think they are capable of.

In 2016, Accenture teamed up with a charity for girls interested in STEM called Stemettes to hold events to inspire and motivate young women. Taking place in the UK and Ireland, the goal of each event is "to create a 'culture of asking questions' and [give girls] access to Accenture volunteers and female role models, enabling them to interact people currently working in STEM." The workshops were designed to disprove the idea of extremely rigorous subjects of STEM as well as to show the expressive aspects.

Female empowerment is principal to persuade young women and maintain their interest in STEM. They have a lot of social media influencers but not enough for role models in such a male-dominated fields, especially technology.