The article skips over the major contributing trend towards women beinge "underrepresented" in STEM fields and in faculty in STEM fields. It is well known in the STEM eductaion community that the gender gap in STEM fields in the US begins in junior high, not college. The focus on female STEM faculty is merely a more visible item to point to when complaining about gender inequity.

For those that aren't up on the jargon: STEM is "Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics". And if the problem really starts in junior high (by which I assume you mean "pre-algebra, or when we quit doing simple arithmetic and finally get to the good stuff", then we're blowing their hypothesis out of the water, because most junior high math teachers are female, and have been for decades.

It makes sense since junior high is the point on the timeline wherein puberty is in high gear and the opposite human gender becomes far more interesting and distracting than the variations of species and mathematical applications.

So by targetting junior high school, you are actually encouraging segregation of youth.

Quite frankly, the ideological purists of feminists have inadvertently inserted an obstical for youth when they required mixing of genders throughout education.