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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We champion equality, diversity and inclusion here at the IET - and frequently run campaigns to challenge outdated stereotypes and make our profession a more welcoming and inclusive place.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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    It is the fact that the most under privileged group in society today is the white male.

    Why?

    When did you last see a white male scholarship?

    When did you last see a white male history day/week/month?

    When did you last see a white male only event?

    etc…

    You don't see these as they would be labelled racist and sexist, and rightly so, but they exist for “black” and “black women” and “women”.

    The world needs equality, not swinging the pendulum one way or another.  Drop the Woke racism that BLM has poisoned the country with!

    International Men's Day is next Friday (19th November): ukmensday.org.uk/.../
    The themes the day focuses on are:

    • Making a positive difference to the wellbeing and lives of men and boys
      Promoting a positive conversation about men, manhood and masculinity
      Raising awareness and/or funds for charities supporting men and boys’ wellbeing
       

    I hope you enjoy the day.

    I think the reason that we don't have a “white male history day” is because most UK academic history syllabuses focus on the antics of white men already. But if people are only taught about what white men were doing, they then think that women or ethnic minorities had no part to play in history and that simply isn't true.  Perhaps if your school history teachers had focussed more on other segments of society, perhaps you would be arguing that this country was built by our foremothers! Perhaps not. But if you enjoy history, then what is the problem with learning a bit more about it from another perspective?

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    It is the fact that the most under privileged group in society today is the white male.

    Why?

    When did you last see a white male scholarship?

    When did you last see a white male history day/week/month?

    When did you last see a white male only event?

    etc…

    You don't see these as they would be labelled racist and sexist, and rightly so, but they exist for “black” and “black women” and “women”.

    The world needs equality, not swinging the pendulum one way or another.  Drop the Woke racism that BLM has poisoned the country with!

    International Men's Day is next Friday (19th November): ukmensday.org.uk/.../
    The themes the day focuses on are:

    • Making a positive difference to the wellbeing and lives of men and boys
      Promoting a positive conversation about men, manhood and masculinity
      Raising awareness and/or funds for charities supporting men and boys’ wellbeing
       

    I hope you enjoy the day.

    I think the reason that we don't have a “white male history day” is because most UK academic history syllabuses focus on the antics of white men already. But if people are only taught about what white men were doing, they then think that women or ethnic minorities had no part to play in history and that simply isn't true.  Perhaps if your school history teachers had focussed more on other segments of society, perhaps you would be arguing that this country was built by our foremothers! Perhaps not. But if you enjoy history, then what is the problem with learning a bit more about it from another perspective?

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