Women in Engineering Day!

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Today marks the international Women in Engineering Day (#INWED20) where we celebrate the things women in engineering do and encourage more women to enter the industry! The campaign sets out to raise the profile of women in engineering and bring to light amazing opportunities available to women in the sector. 

In an industry still dominated by men, career satisfaction and rewarding salaries are helping women push for a change. Women are successfully breaking into the sector however they still only make up for 12.3% of all engineers in the UK. 

Women in Engineering Day sees women #TransformtheFuture

Women are generally underrepresented in STEM industries and the engineering sector is working hard to recruit more female engineers and address the gender imbalance. There are fantastic initiatives to highlight the range of careers available in this sector and inspire more young women into these roles and these are some of them; 

  • WISE CAMPAIGN – encourages women and girls to value and pursue a career in science, technology and engineering related paths.
  • TOP 50 WOMEN IN ENGINEERING – aims to raise awareness of the skills short ages faced in the industry and the huge discrepancy between men vs women currently in engineering professions. 

 

Campaigns like these have an impact and the UK is on track to achieve a million women working in STEM roles by 2020.  

 

Some of the engineering graduate roles available; 

  • Engineering Graduate Scheme – Birmingham – Arriva UK Trains  
  • Engineering Graduate – Rugby – Hermes 
  • Graduate Analyst Programmer – Dorset Software Services 
  • Engineering Graduate Programme – London – Sky 
  • Process Engineer – Proctor& Gamble  
  • Graduate Automotive Engineers – Essex- Contech’s Consulting LTD 

 

The best place to look for engineering roles across the sector is Gradcracker.com  

As they specialise in STEM graduate schemes/jobs 

 

Raise the bar on International Women in Engineering Day

Are you a women working in engineering? We would love to hear from you and celebrate you!

 

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