While we’ve looked at a variety of initiatives set up to encourage girls and women to step further into the STEM fields and take their place in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics over time, it can still be disheartening to realize how thoroughly such initiatives are still needed today. Encountering sexism isn't unheard-of in the still heavily male-dominated tech industry, and sometimes that can happen at conferences. 3DPrint.com takes a look at what it means to be in 3D printing while female: https://3dprint.com/156333/3d-printing-while-female/