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Online images reinforce engineering stereotypes

Lisa Miles
Reading an article on E&T online about online images reinforcing engineering stereotypes so I thought I'd take a bit of a look at some of the Free stock photography sites, use the search term of 'Engineer' and have a look at the types of photos that come up in the results.


Really pleased to say that there was a HUGE amount of images depicting women in Engineering available (out of the 25 top images over 15 of them had women in them) which leads me to think that its those working in Brand Marketing that need to be taught to break out of the stereotypes?
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    Interesting - in the historic image collections it's relatively unusual to see a woman in a hard hat, as it would have been more difficult for women to work on site (many were in research or supervisory roles). E.g. the attached image of Elizabeth Laverick, technical director at Elliot Automation Radar (and later Deputy Secretary of the IEE).

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    Interesting - in the historic image collections it's relatively unusual to see a woman in a hard hat, as it would have been more difficult for women to work on site (many were in research or supervisory roles). E.g. the attached image of Elizabeth Laverick, technical director at Elliot Automation Radar (and later Deputy Secretary of the IEE).

    30e2dc3e1bf179679f4c592b2b068510-huge-naest-92-07-04-13---elizabeth-laverick.jpg

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