President Trump's announcement of a $100,000 annual fee for H-1B visa holders is a wake-up call for every U.S. employer who has been looking overseas while ignoring the women-in-tech talent crisis they helped create.

For decades, companies have complained about STEM shortages while hemorrhaging the very talent they claim to need. Now, with H-1B visas about to become prohibitively expensive, employers have three choices: panic, pay up or pivot.

We don't have a STEM education problem. We have a women’s STEM retention problem. The numbers are staggering: Seventy-six percent of women with engineering degrees don't work in engineering. Twenty percent of women who start STEM careers leave within their first year. By age 30, only

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