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We champion equality, diversity and inclusion here at the IET - and frequently run campaigns to challenge outdated stereotypes and make our profession a more welcoming and inclusive place.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

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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.

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0 Former Community Member over 2 years ago

A couple of threads here-
Primary schools - I've taken or helped take a glider/sailplane to a local primary school a couple of times now. The kids are usually fascinated as they've never been close to an aeroplane. Interestingly it's usually the girls who ask the sensible questions as the boys struggle to get past the “what if the wings fall off?” stage. Later on in gliding clubs women are in the minority and I suspect the reasons are going to be similar but hard to pin down. There's certainly a degree of “I never thought it could be for me”.
For software engineering, in all the companies I've worked in, women have been in the minority. Some have been very good, some less so. In practice, gender doesn't matter but the larger the pool of good engineers we have the better. The emphasis is on good here - I've definitely come across programmers who have negative productivity and really shouldn't be allowed near a computer. There's nothing about being “woke” or politics here - it's just hard to get good people.
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0 Former Community Member over 2 years ago

A couple of threads here-
Primary schools - I've taken or helped take a glider/sailplane to a local primary school a couple of times now. The kids are usually fascinated as they've never been close to an aeroplane. Interestingly it's usually the girls who ask the sensible questions as the boys struggle to get past the “what if the wings fall off?” stage. Later on in gliding clubs women are in the minority and I suspect the reasons are going to be similar but hard to pin down. There's certainly a degree of “I never thought it could be for me”.
For software engineering, in all the companies I've worked in, women have been in the minority. Some have been very good, some less so. In practice, gender doesn't matter but the larger the pool of good engineers we have the better. The emphasis is on good here - I've definitely come across programmers who have negative productivity and really shouldn't be allowed near a computer. There's nothing about being “woke” or politics here - it's just hard to get good people.
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