22nd Jun 2024
International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), brought to you by Women’s Engineering Society (WES) celebrates its 11th year today and we are proudly sharing the amazing work that women engineers across our Group are doing.
This year’s theme is #Enhancedbyengineering. INWED gives women engineers around the world a profile when they are still hugely under-represented, with 2021 figures indicating that in the UK only 16.5% of engineers are women. As the only platform of its kind, it plays a vital role in encouraging more young women and girls to take up engineering careers.
When approaching volunteers, we as a group wanted to learn as much as we can about the amazing women who work for our member companies. We recognise that the areas in which they work are typically male dominated, so we wanted to not only share their successes, but also learn from their experiences and find out if there is anything we as a group can do better to support them.
