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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We champion equality, diversity and inclusion here at the IET - and frequently run campaigns to challenge outdated stereotypes and make our profession a more welcoming and inclusive place.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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    From my experience the engineering sector is not an inclusive as it could be, and I would support the IET’s active involvement in trying to insure that people do not face barriers to working in engineering. However, I would not advocate doing this through positive discrimination – such as Women Engineer of the Year awards – because that discriminates against Men and those who identify as non-binary. When taking this approach where do you draw the line – should you also have categories for LBGT / Physically Disabled / Non-Physically Disabled Engineers? Surely it’s much better to have Engineer of the Year award and judge everyone purely on their achievements?

    Something that also concerns me is that the drive to promote engineering as a clean profession, those with dirty hands-on jobs are over-looked. It appears to me that the IET primarily recognise that achievements of those in managerial positions, and rarely those who prefer to remain hands-on.

    In addressing inclusivity I would prefer to see the IET focussing more on increasing awareness and promoting ways to address the barriers for people entering the profession – primarily the flexibility and provision of suitable working conditions, and the candidate selection process.

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    From my experience the engineering sector is not an inclusive as it could be, and I would support the IET’s active involvement in trying to insure that people do not face barriers to working in engineering. However, I would not advocate doing this through positive discrimination – such as Women Engineer of the Year awards – because that discriminates against Men and those who identify as non-binary. When taking this approach where do you draw the line – should you also have categories for LBGT / Physically Disabled / Non-Physically Disabled Engineers? Surely it’s much better to have Engineer of the Year award and judge everyone purely on their achievements?

    Something that also concerns me is that the drive to promote engineering as a clean profession, those with dirty hands-on jobs are over-looked. It appears to me that the IET primarily recognise that achievements of those in managerial positions, and rarely those who prefer to remain hands-on.

    In addressing inclusivity I would prefer to see the IET focussing more on increasing awareness and promoting ways to address the barriers for people entering the profession – primarily the flexibility and provision of suitable working conditions, and the candidate selection process.

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