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Help inform our next campaign

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We champion equality, diversity and inclusion here at the IET - and frequently run campaigns to challenge outdated stereotypes and make our profession a more welcoming and inclusive place.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

    I am not a “Bot”, I am an individual with an informed opinion.  

    Your informed opinion on women in engineering is that

    IET social engineering….. is becoming far too ‘Woke.’

    Could you maybe explain

    • having said this is “informed”, on what information this opinion is based? and
    • what you mean by “Woke” in this context?

     

    I don't agree with social engineering however well intentioned, it is discriminatory and may potentially lead to a lowering of standards which is not in the interests of our profession.  

    Some of us have written that encouraging talented women into engineering will lead to a raising of standards. Can you address the arguments that have been made for that, to show how it would lead instead to a lowering of standards, as you claim?

     

    Also, I don't believe in spending billions of OUR tax money fighting climate change 

    This isn't a thread about climate change.

     

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  • Rob Eagle: 
     

    I am not a “Bot”, I am an individual with an informed opinion.  

    Your informed opinion on women in engineering is that

    IET social engineering….. is becoming far too ‘Woke.’

    Could you maybe explain

    • having said this is “informed”, on what information this opinion is based? and
    • what you mean by “Woke” in this context?

     

    I don't agree with social engineering however well intentioned, it is discriminatory and may potentially lead to a lowering of standards which is not in the interests of our profession.  

    Some of us have written that encouraging talented women into engineering will lead to a raising of standards. Can you address the arguments that have been made for that, to show how it would lead instead to a lowering of standards, as you claim?

     

    Also, I don't believe in spending billions of OUR tax money fighting climate change 

    This isn't a thread about climate change.

     

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