Happy 90<sup>th</sup> Birthday Women Chemists Committee! Our current mission is, of course, to be leaders in attracting, developing, promoting, retaining and advocating for women in the chemical sciences in order to positively impact society and the profession. I am honored to have served on this amazing committee. During my time as chair, 2013-2016, I often pondered about what success would look like, and I found it interesting that the committee was spending so much energy working towards the goal of making ourselves obsolete. Although we are making great strides in many areas, we have a long way to go before our job is done. Recently, WCC has been instrumental in leading the society to experience an increased awareness of diversity and inclusion (thanks to the D&IAB), a slow increase in the percentage of women winning ACS National Awards (held a working breakfast and moderated a webinar on Becoming Award Ready), an opportunity to more candidly discuss some very private and somewhat taboo topics such as infertility and sexual harassment (thanks to L. Wang via C&EN articles), an increase in external funding sources/partnerships to further our mission (thanks to our partners and the ACS Development folks) and the presidential succession being completely female for the first time in history (thanks to the Society)! So we do need to take a few minutes to celebrate, but there is still so much to do. I know we will keep moving in the right direction, because the committee is made up of strong, insightful, resourceful, energetic, forward thinking movers and shakers, and in my opinion, we got this!<br/>

Partnerships, awards and taboo topics, oh my! Happy Birthday WCC!

253rd National Meeting (2017)

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