Women in Engineering Reflections

Back in June 2024, Wendy Owen wrote an article celebrating International Women in Engineering Day (INWED). The article was published on the SCSC website to tie in with the INWED event, which occurs on 23rd June every year. Wendy has kindly agreed to reproduce the content in this edition of the newsletter; this will help make the insights arising from her group discussion with prominent female system safety engineers available to as wide as readership as possible and ties in with Ada Lovelace Day (findingada.com) also celebrated this month. INWED began in the UK in 2014 as a national campaign from the Women?s Engineering Society (WES). Since then, it has grown enormously, receiving UNESCO patronage in 2016 and going global the following year. INWED promotes the amazing work that women engineers across the globe are doing and gives them a profile when they are still hugely under-represented. It plays a vital role in encouraging women and girls to take up engineering careers.