I, too, had a dearth of STEM female role models in my life, but I had a great deal of encouragement in math/sciences from my pops, so that kind of made up for it.

I would dearly love to read a Jeannie story from you. :))))

It's interesting: I don't write stories from the female POV very often either, although I have really enjoyed it when I have (Teyla, Jennifer).