Women in Tech

Siemens has continued its drive to increase the number of women in engineering with a recruitment event to spot the STEM talent of the future.

Electronic Specifier spoke to two female engineering students about their experiences before and during their degrees. Hepzi Rattray is currently in her fifth year studying Civil Engineering at the University of Glasgow, and Zoe Hatton is a third year Mechanical Engineering student at Imperial College London.

This week Electronic Specifier interviewed Lili Nazer, an incredibly talented teenager from Budapest, Hungary. She has already created five applications which assist people in day-to-day tasks, worked with both Microsoft and Prezi, and received the Oracle Young Talent Award.

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.

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.

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.

Organisations working to meaningfully improve diversity and inclusion in STEM may be missing a crucial consideration, new research suggests.

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.

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.

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.