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News Release from: IIE, The Institution of Incorporated Engineers
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 11 April 2005
Award recognises young female talent
The IIE is seeking a bright, ambitious and outgoing young woman to receive the 2005 Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award.
Women are still under-represented in engineering at all levels The Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award, sponsored by IIE and The Caroline Haslett Memorial Trust and supported by the Ford Motor Company and BT, aims to redress this, and the IIE is seeking a bright, ambitious and outgoing young woman to receive the 2005 award
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Caroline Slocock, Chief Executive of the Equal Opportunities Commission said: "The Young Woman Engineer of the Year Award is an excellent initiative and will put positive role models for aspiring female engineers into the limelight".
"The investigation we carried out recently into gender segregation in employment identified engineering as a sector with particularly low numbers of women - only 8% of the workforce is female".
"Yet we know that 80% of young women have expressed an interest in learning to do a job not traditionally done by women".
"The industry is experiencing severe skills shortages yet employers are not making the most of female talent".
"Young people must be given the opportunities and choice they need when entering the workplace".
This year's winner will be a dynamic and technically excellent engineer who has charisma and is able to project success.
The winner of the award in 2004, Faye Banks, 25, a production line engineer at Lever Faberge, has proved to be an exceptional role model.
Since receiving her award she has visited schools, colleges, spoken at events and received a great deal of media coverage.
Sharing her enthusiasm for a career she enjoys immensely, she has encouraged others to consider engineering as a career.
The winner of the award will receive a cheque for GBP 1000 and a silver rose bowl at a national ceremony in London in November.
The runner-up will receive the Women's Engineering Society prize of GBP 500.
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