Women in Tech

The UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 marked an incredible milestone. March 2022 saw the largest attendance ever for a women’s football match, with a record crowd of 91,533 in Barcelona. The final at Wembley sold out three months before the tournament even kicked off.

Susan Roche was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She first came to England as a teenager for a year at the University of East Anglia during her degree. Needless to say, she loved it and after going back to the US to complete her degree, she came back to the UK to start her career in sales and marketing while studying for an MBA from Manchester Business School.

The leaders of 18 of the UK’s largest energy organisations, including the regulators Ofgem and the North Sea Transition Authority, have published a commitment to do more to support women working in middle management in the UK energy sector.

The Women’s Leadership Program (WLP), an SMTA-sponsored organisation that strives to promote diversity and inclusion in engineering and manufacturing fields, announces that it will host invited presentations about technology innovations and career advancements on 1 November 2022.

The Women’s Leadership Program (WLP), an SMTA-sponsored organisation that strives to promote diversity and inclusion in engineering and manufacturing fields, announces that it will host its annual programme and reception during SMTA International on 1st November 2022, at the Minneapolis Convention Centre in Minnesota.

Expertise, vision, information management, success, ethical conduct, human competence and diversity: Ayla Busch has convinced the jury in all these categories and therefore received the German Leadership Award 2022.

Annabelle M. Rayson from Canada receives the prestigious 2022 Stockholm Junior Water Prize for her research on how to treat and prevent harmful algae blooms. HRH Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden announced the winner during a ceremony at World Water Week in Stockholm.

To celebrate all the diverse and influential women in STEM on Women’s Equality Day (26th August), Electronic Specifier have taken a trip back through their annals of all the trailblazing STEM women that they have had the pleasure to meet … so far.

It is considered common knowledge that there are many more male engineers than there are female members of the industry. As Electronic Specifier’s Sam Holland considers, the points that are less understood, however, are how the ratios of female-to-male employees fare in other STEM-friendly industries – and the reasons why engineering has one of the widest gender gaps of them all.

Hannah Brown, Chief of Staff at Formula E, discusses the importance of closing the gap in self-belief she feels potentially still exists among young girls wanting to enter engineering and motorsport.