{"id":28039,"date":"2021-03-08T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/?p=28039"},"modified":"2021-08-18T19:20:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T19:20:47","slug":"what-is-the-status-of-women-in-the-3d-printing-industry-08032021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dnatives.com\/en\/what-is-the-status-of-women-in-the-3d-printing-industry-08032021\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Status of Women in the 3D Printing Industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

International Women\u2019s Day takes place every year on March 8th. According to the United Nations, it is a global day that celebrates the achievements of women around the world as well as the progress that has been made up to this point in attaining gender equality. However, it also serves as a day to reflect on the advancements that still need to be made worldwide in order to truly achieve gender parity. <\/span>As such, we decided to talk to six influential women in 3D printing, taking to reflect not just on the state of women in 3D printing today, but on how we still need to learn and grow in order to welcome even more women into the field in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

The large gender disparities in the STEM (<\/span>science, technology, engineering and mathematics ) fields have been a well-known problem for a number of years now. Though women take science classes at the same rate as men in primary and secondary schools, for some reason, they are less likely than their male counterparts to study STEM courses when they reach universities, and even less likely to be working in STEM fields, with the worst disparity present for engineers, a problem also present in AM. To get more insights on the status of women in the field, we spoke with six influential women in the world of additive manufacturing: Michelle Bockman the CEO of 3D Control Systems; Marie Langer<\/a> the CEO of EOS; Mariel Diaz the CEO and founder of Triditive<\/a>; Cindy Deekitwong, Global Head of Marketing at Henkel<\/a>; Anne Debauge, the Digital Director fo Pack&Dev at L\u2019Or\u00e9al<\/a>; and Elena L\u00f3pez<\/a>, the Head of AM at Fraunhofer IWS. We asked them how the presence of women in the 3D printing industry has evolved, what barriers still exist to women participation in AM as well as recommendations they may have to increase the number of women in the industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t