Although women have contributed to mathematics at the highest level for a long time, this fact has not been visible to the general public. I hope that the existence of a female Fields medallist, who will surely be the first of many, will put to bed many myths about women and mathematics, and encourage more young women to think of mathematical research as a possible career.

My favorite is this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

She was a genius, her work on symmetry and conservation laws accounts for some of our most fundamental scientific laws, and explains them merely as cases of symmetry breaking.

Culturally, woman are still coming into their own, so philosophy is still on the horizon for them. One step at a time. Today business, science, and politics, tomorrow, philosophy (specifically answering the Greatest of the Great Questions of LIfe: that of "Why bother?") (though I've already answered it) (because consciousness is a good thing) (consider the alternative), and we can be Mr. Mom's in the meantime - teaching our preschoolers calculus - it may be the preferred arrangement...