Engineering is typically a male-dominated arena – but beyond simply tinkering with and repairing equipment, engineering requires a flare for creativity and intelligence which the industry often misses out on due to so few women considering the career path. Introduce A Girl To Engineering Day is all about encouraging girls to consider a route into engineering, and inspiring a generation who might grow up to be the great innovators and problem solvers of the next generation! Slightly odd one this
Surprisingly there are quite a few in Engineering, one of the metallurgists in Honeywell, Skelmersdale is a female, as is/was at Alcan in Banbury. Another female runs part of the design team for Cummins Turbo Technologies (aside of a young lady fatigue test engineer in their labs). I know one of the girls in an aerospace company in Gloucestershire, she assists in planning test schedules! Yet another runs he mech engineering in Swansea University.. There are lots out there who, sometimes are as capable, if not more so than us blokes & they don't mind getting oily too!
Not really engineering as in the mechanical/greasy sense of the word .... but i have come across a couple of ladieis in civil engineering ,certainly a few electricians ,yes a plumber and also worked with a girlie bricklayer...nice girl ..big hands ,bit like Charlie Dimmock only very attractive ,she was a cracking girl ,a good laugh and very good at her job,and there was an excavator operator in a quarry we used toooo!!!
Great idea albeit there have been sea going female engineers for many years. In my experience when there is a problem that requires a solution the blokes will dive in and spend time thrashing about, more noise than substance, but the ladies stop and think it through first. Something to do with them being more logical than us blokes so I'm told.
'Tiny-pie, this is engineering. Engineering, this is tiny-pie'. Are there any other girls on here who need an introduction?
Agreed with above - when I was telecoms engineering, mostly I worked for/with women engineers and they were more fun than their hard-nosed male couterparts.
When I first started out plumbing 9 years ago there were hardly any other women, every course i have ever been of has been totally men apart from me. However, there do seem to be more women in the trades now, British Gas seems to employ a few. I did gas training as it was lighter (generally) than straight water plumbing so less of a strain physically. In 7 years working in Spain I never met another woman plumber and neither had any of the Spaniards I worked with. Now I am back in the UK and teaching construction/plumbing I only have one girl in my classes. Hopefully more will want to do it in the future but the good thing is that none of the boys seem at all phased by having a woman plumber (more than can be said for some of the older customers I have met!) The men I worked with in the UK said it was nice having a woman to work with as it changed the dynamics a bit and made them feel less pressured to keep up a macho image as with other fellas.
