adeline Szoo grew up listening to her grandmother talk of being laughed at when she spoke of going to college and becoming an accountant.
“‘No one will trust a woman with their money,'” relatives and friends would scoff.
When Szoo excelled at math in high school, she got her share of ridicule too — though it was slightly subtler. “I was told a lot, ‘You’re smart for a girl,'” she said. “I knew other girls in my classes who weren’t able to move past that.”
