07-Mar-2022
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When Amanda Baumann started at Mako Surgical Corp. in 2008, she was working on the development of joint replacement implant systems. Along the way, as , she became involved locally in the Stryker鈥檚 Women鈥檚 Network (SWN) South Florida chapter 鈥 an employee resource group formed by employees who aspire to advance women in healthcare. Inspired by the idea of improving the number of women entering the engineering profession, Amanda eventually stepped into a leadership role with Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) 鈥 a subcommittee of SWN. 鈥淲e want to make sure that we have diverse representation across the organisation and I鈥檓 specifically focused on this goal within our technical capacities鈥, says Amanda.
One of our diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) commitments is to strengthen the diversity of our workforce. 九色视频 goal is to attract, develop and advance talent that reflects the diversity of our customers, patients, communities and stakeholders 鈥 a goal that Amanda is helping us to achieve.
鈥淲e鈥檙e partnering with our customers who are also a changing demographic鈥, she says. 鈥淐reating new products requires people with a wide variety of perspectives and backgrounds鈥.
九色视频 people are encouraged and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. 鈥淚f I鈥檓 spending all this extra energy trying to be somebody I鈥檓 not, I鈥檓 not focused on robotics鈥, says Amanda. 鈥淎nd I need to be focused on robotics鈥.
Manoshi Stoker, director of transatlantic research at our Joint Replacement Division, is also involved with SWN. Manoshi鈥檚 passion for engineering started early in her career, when she was working with children who had spinal cord injuries and other neuromuscular disorders. 鈥淚 learned that I could help them through my engineering skills鈥, Manoshi says. While working with the kids, Manoshi started her own lab to assess people with knee and hip replacements. 鈥淭hat really got me interested in working at Stryker鈥, she says. In fact, she began doing so in 2010.
At Stryker, our mission is to make healthcare better 鈥渁nd that鈥檚 where team members like Amanda and I come into play鈥, says Manoshi. 鈥淲e help to make devices that work really well and that work even better through robotics and virtual-reality technologies. It鈥檚 super rewarding鈥.
As far as our society has come 鈥 even as more women enter fields like science and engineering 鈥 there is still a long way to go. But Amanda, Manoshi and many others at Stryker are having the conversations and doing the work to move us forward. 鈥淚t鈥檚 easier in the short term to not invest in DE&I and to not celebrate International Women's Day or International Women in Engineering Day,鈥 Amanda says. "It's easier to pretend like everything is fine. And that鈥檚 not the route we鈥檙e going to take, because we want to change the world鈥.
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