Asst. Prof.  Mojca Otoničar from the Department of Electronic Ceramics organized a WIE event at the International Conference on Ferroelectric Materials and Applications (IEEE ISAF-ISIF-PFM https://2023.ieee-isaf.org/) in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on gender barriers that young women in science and academia face and the approaches that researchers can adopt to minimize those barriers. The author of the book ‘Glass walls’, Dr. Amy Diehl, presented 6 main barriers that women need to overcome in their career progression due to the society infiltrated gender biases. A panel discussion followed with esteemed scientists – Prof. Elizabeth Dickey from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Prof. Beatriz Noheda from the University of Gröningen, the Netherlands, and Prof. Hiroko Yokota from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, who shared their opinions and experiences in systemic and informal approaches to provide equal opportunities for female researchers across countries and institutions.