Women in Tech
Celebrate women's diversity at SMTAI 2021
KYZEN has announced that its sponsoring the Women’s Leadership Program’s Connection Reception and Ice Cream Social to be held at SMTA International on 2nd November, 2021 at 5 pm at the Minneapolis Convention Center. This is the ninth consecutive year that KYZEN has sponsored this event in support of women in all roles within the Electronics Assembly Industry.
The semiconductor industry owes a lot to women
In this fourth and final installment of a women in tech series, Mouser's Marie-Pierre Ducharme discusses significant female engineers, such as Esther Marley Cornwell (pictured above), that have pioneered research in semiconductor technology. Despite the low levels of headcount, women have played significant roles in advancing semiconductor technology. She looks at the contributions of a few talented and successful women.
IET has appointed first woman chair of IET Council
Members of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Council have selected engineer Dr Carol Marsh OBE EngD CEng FIET as its new chair, the first woman to be elected to this post.
Improving the workplace experience of women in STEM
Organisations working to meaningfully improve diversity and inclusion in STEM may be missing a crucial consideration, new research suggests.
'Raducanu of Engineering' puts robots on the healthcare frontline
An inspirational award-winning young British engineer, dubbed the ‘Raducanu of Engineering’, has been praised for her role developing a robotic pharmaceutical testing system now on the health frontline.
Women in STEM are leading innovation: here’s why
It was not always the case that women were significantly involved in STEM. When the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) was founded in 1880 there was not a single female member – that milestone took a further 38 years, with Kate Gleason becoming the first woman to join - in 1918.
Opening doors for Britain's women of STEM
2019 figures from the UK Government state that there are now just over one million women in the STEM workforce. This translates to an increase of more than 350,000 women (24%) entering these areas of work. While this may be encouraging to hear, there is still a long way to go for gender equality in these male-dominated industries.
The importance of female representation in the data centre sector
There’s been talk of a skill shortage in IT of late, but that has long been the case for female professionals in this industry. With only a fraction of the UK’s female workforce operating in IT, this is a massive limitation on the potential scale of who could be qualified to work in the sector. In 2019 the proportion of female staff in tech in the UK, sat at just 16%, incredibly, this equates to the same figure as a decade before. Ano...
Real experiences of women in engineering and maritime
Currently, women represent only two percent of the maritime industry, while only eight percent of employees in engineering are women. This is in stark contrast to the UK workforce as a whole, of which women make up 47%. Abi Thompson, Project Manager, and Georgia Jones, Senior Strategic Buyer, at subsea engineering company SMD, share their experiences of women in engineering.
Meet the female engineers creating a more sustainable world
Two women are leading the way in automated environmental sensing and waste tracking. Marie-Pierre Ducharme, Mouser Electronics reports.