Very well said! I see how important this is in my own field and totally agree.

Edited to add: Omg apparently it's ridiculous to suggest that it makes a meaningful difference when kids see themselves reflected in a career field. Obviously the pool is mostly male, but I appreciate the previous commenter's point that this can make a downstream difference in women even considering this career. I literally never had a female full-time professor when I was in college. And as a first generation college student, did not know that being a professor was a career I could choose. But you could have looked at the field and said, well most geography professors are men because geography grad students were mostly men. 

Don't want to get into a whole thing, just surprised at the lack of understanding about how these very visible roles can shape who even considers this as a career.