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Help inform our next campaign

Natalie Boon

Hi everyone!

Hope you're safe and well.

We champion equality, diversity and inclusion here at the IET - and frequently run campaigns to challenge outdated stereotypes and make our profession a more welcoming and inclusive place.

We're starting work on our next campaign - and we need your help!

Our focus for this phase is on how we can take real, tangible steps to unite our community to make engineering and technology a career path that is accessible to everyone.

So, what’s your experience? Tell us by adding your thoughts below.

We want to hear from everyone, and we mean everyone. We believe that continuing to thrive in this sector can only happen if we all connect and work together, and that means we need all viewpoints – positive, negative, and even the grey area in between!

So whether you have had good or bad experiences, whatever your background, and whether you identify with different protected characteristics or not – we want to hear from you.

And if you’re comfortable sharing your thoughts in a little more detail, we’re looking for a broad mix of individuals to be interviewed in the next few weeks. You can submit your details for consideration via this link.

And if you would prefer to remain anonymous but still have a viewpoint you’d like to share – no problem! You can send us your thoughts using this form instead.

Thank you in advance for your support.

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    James Smith: 
     

    Given responses to previous posts in this community I feel we need to discuss why we need these initiatives - it is not universally accepted that there is even an issue, let alone a need to take action.

    In the 1970's, one-third of the graduate students in math at my British undergrad university were women. I wondered why so few, given that over half of people are women. Then I went to University of California, Berkeley, known for its progressive attitudes to women and minorities – and it was one in ten. At the same time, computer science was starting up at UCB and well over half the upper-division students were women. But look at Silicon Valley nowadays and it's wall-to-wall bros. 

    I have thought, for fifty years now, that there are social reasons for such things that we do not necessarily understand well. And if we did understand them, we'd probably all have a more productive life all around. Who to inquire after them and try to figure them out but the professional society? I think the IET has to ask, and regularly. 

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    James Smith: 
     

    Given responses to previous posts in this community I feel we need to discuss why we need these initiatives - it is not universally accepted that there is even an issue, let alone a need to take action.

    In the 1970's, one-third of the graduate students in math at my British undergrad university were women. I wondered why so few, given that over half of people are women. Then I went to University of California, Berkeley, known for its progressive attitudes to women and minorities – and it was one in ten. At the same time, computer science was starting up at UCB and well over half the upper-division students were women. But look at Silicon Valley nowadays and it's wall-to-wall bros. 

    I have thought, for fifty years now, that there are social reasons for such things that we do not necessarily understand well. And if we did understand them, we'd probably all have a more productive life all around. Who to inquire after them and try to figure them out but the professional society? I think the IET has to ask, and regularly. 

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