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We champion equality, diversity and inclusion here at the IET - and frequently run campaigns to challenge outdated stereotypes and make our profession a more welcoming and inclusive place.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

    Not working in engineering. I am a CEng and have not really worked in engineering for many years. The reasons why are

    1. Got made redundant twice
    2. Many applicable jobs require travel - which I can't do due to caring responsibilities 
    3. Jobs also require quite a lot of out of normal work hours/ last minute responses

     

    All of these make it hard for women (and many men) with children to work in the sector - especially after I was widowed. Now I'm older and my children are mostly grown up  I have an elderly parent to care for so still can't do much travel or out of hours work.  

    I'm a pretty good engineer and would love to come back to it  - but until the sector offers family friendly work it is going to rule out many people (not just women - men want to care for their families too. )

    So employers -  be a bit more realistic when you are recruiting and don't make people redundant so often  

     

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  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member

    Not working in engineering. I am a CEng and have not really worked in engineering for many years. The reasons why are

    1. Got made redundant twice
    2. Many applicable jobs require travel - which I can't do due to caring responsibilities 
    3. Jobs also require quite a lot of out of normal work hours/ last minute responses

     

    All of these make it hard for women (and many men) with children to work in the sector - especially after I was widowed. Now I'm older and my children are mostly grown up  I have an elderly parent to care for so still can't do much travel or out of hours work.  

    I'm a pretty good engineer and would love to come back to it  - but until the sector offers family friendly work it is going to rule out many people (not just women - men want to care for their families too. )

    So employers -  be a bit more realistic when you are recruiting and don't make people redundant so often  

     

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