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Gender Diversity Awareness Topics

Former Community Member
Former Community Member
Hello,



As we now have a good number of males from engineering and technology backgrounds on this group, I thought that it would be a good idea to take advantage of this and create an online diversity awareness discussion forum, on this platform, where men (and women) are made aware of the issues that some women face and perhaps, that some men face in the workplace.



It would also be good to hear about some of the things that employers have implemented to ensure gender diversity is acknowledged and the steps have been taken to achieve this.



I would like to encourage members of this community to come forward with real issues / topics that may have impacted them or others in their daily working environment. From there, discussions can be formed on what happened or, what you might like to see happen to remedy these issues.



This would give both men & women / senior management / decision-makers an opportunity to take on board specific comments as well as gaining further insight and perspective.



Topics should be real and focus on aspects that are relevant and important to you.



Topics could include but are not limited to;






  • Gender bias


  • Unconscious bias


  • Wage disparity


  • balancing family and work


  • Stereotypes


  • Confidence


  • Being heard


  • Self-promotion


If you have a topic that you would like to start off, then please do so by replying to this thread and posting your comments.



It would be really nice to hear from both men and women.



Kind regards,

Jo Foster



Chair, IET Women's Network
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  • Former Community Member
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    Well it's a relief to see more people who agree with my viewpoint. The issue here is that we're talking about sites that don't belong to my company. Back in the office I would absolutely not accept it. But it's a more grey area when walking into someone else's place of work. I have addressed this with my HR department, who I believe could include a clause about appropriate work environments in our internal policies, so we at least felt we had some back-up on external sites in relation to this matter. However they point blank refused to help me, despite several e-mails back and forth (I even consulted an employment solicitor, through a family connection). Eventually I decided I can't win this particular battle in this particular case. But I absolutely think the displaying of such material sends a clear message about the way women are viewed, and treated, in engineering environments, and is just one example of the kind of attitude that prevents young women from wanting to be involved in engineering.
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  • Former Community Member
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    Well it's a relief to see more people who agree with my viewpoint. The issue here is that we're talking about sites that don't belong to my company. Back in the office I would absolutely not accept it. But it's a more grey area when walking into someone else's place of work. I have addressed this with my HR department, who I believe could include a clause about appropriate work environments in our internal policies, so we at least felt we had some back-up on external sites in relation to this matter. However they point blank refused to help me, despite several e-mails back and forth (I even consulted an employment solicitor, through a family connection). Eventually I decided I can't win this particular battle in this particular case. But I absolutely think the displaying of such material sends a clear message about the way women are viewed, and treated, in engineering environments, and is just one example of the kind of attitude that prevents young women from wanting to be involved in engineering.
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