Born in the former Soviet Union, Dr Olga Shimoni’s experience of the gender imbalance in science and engineering began after she came to Australia. She believes strong role models are one way of driving progress to change expectations of labour division in the home, and the negative effect they have on women and our careers.Dr Olga Shimoni is Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and NHMRC-ARC Dementia Research Fellow. She is also co-chief investigator on the ARC Industrial Research Hub for Integrated Device for End-user Analysis at Low-levels (IDEAL Hub).