Women in Tech

According to statistics published by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES), a mere 12.37% of all engineers in the UK are female. While it’s no secret that engineering has historically been a male-dominated industry, leading multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy Dice is challenging the stereotype and providing opportunities to encourage more women to enter the profession.

Today, 8th March 2021, marks International Women’s Day and the theme for 2021 is 'Choose to Challenge', so we sought to speak to some of the inspiring women that work within RingGo to discuss the challenges they have chosen to overcome. 

Can you believe that in just a few weeks it is International Women’s Day again? It has come around quickly, considering the year we have had. Looking back to this time last year, little did we know what challenges we had ahead of us. So, with not much to look forward to at the moment, a celebration for an exceptionally good focal point is needed. Anna Flockett reports.

Gender roles have been set back significantly since the COVID crisis began, stated 57% of respondents to a new survey of the UK women in tech industry released ahead of International Women's Day on Monday 8th March.

Executive recruitment across the country’s leading STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) organisations is changing. One woman is acting as a major driving force behind this change. Former Rolls-Royce Engineering Programme Manager, and AstraZeneca Systems Engineer, Foram Brown, is working with top STEM corporations to design and implement new leadership and executive search solutions to improve professional opportunities f...

The last 12 months have hit the working population hard, with UK redundancies tripling in the final quarter of 2020 compared to quarter one, and 3.9 million people on furlough schemes as recently as December 2020. As the STEM sector celebrates International Day of Women and Girls in Science on Thursday 11th February, we get the lowdown on why she 19-year-old Abby Clark from Crook in County Durham, opted for an apprentice course in Applied Science...

Earlier this week NI launched an ambitious corporate impact strategy to make good on their new company identity and its promise to 'Engineer Ambitiously'. In a drive to make the company, and its impact on the world, more diverse, equitable and inclusive, NI is committing to 15 goals including:

The uncompromising focus on tackling critical healthcare conditions like breast cancer and other chronic ailments have led to propelling growth of women health devices market lately. According to the World Cancer Research Fund reports, in 2018, there were around 18 million cases of cancer worldwide, of which 8.5 million were primarily identified in women.

Women in Electronics is a community of progressive women leaders who are dedicated to the professional and personal leadership development of women in the fast-paced electronics industry.

With the growth in the engineering sector in the last few years, the requirement of additional workers has led to an increasingly diverse workforce especially with the inclusion of women. The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) sector has traditionally been male dominated. Guest article written by Rachel Gray, Copywriter for Newcastle College.